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I don't like that OP is using Arxiv to upload his course material. Arxiv is supposed to be a pre-print scientific publication server. A place to post your near
by gillesjacobs 6y ago
I don't like that OP is using Arxiv to upload his course material.
Arxiv is supposed to be a pre-print scientific publication server. A place to post your nearly finished or ideally submitted journal or conference manuscript so you can reference it while it is being reviewed.
The purpose of Arxiv is in itself a patch for a too common, too long in duration publication process. Now it is often the first place to publish ML research and an obligatory source of literature in ML. No peer-review or any quality assurance makes for dubious work appearing there that can waste a lot of research time.
Hosting your elementary course there because that's where the researchers are, muddies the quality of work on Arxiv further.
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- hoseja 6y agoYour criticism depends on peer-review actually being functional in the first place.
- gillesjacobs 6y agoI fail to see how it does. The popularity of Arxiv is indeed a sign of a slow-functioning peer-review system, but it has its valid uses. My criticism pertains to OP using Arxiv as a PDF host for course material irrelevant to Arxiv's userbase, i.e. expert researchers. It is already hard enough to find the quality manuscripts in Arxiv. Hence why Karpathy made Arxiv Sanity Preserver [1]. I would rather not have to drudge through pages of tutorial pdf's when searching "neural graph methods for NLP" for instance. 1. https://www.arxiv-sanity.com https://www.arxiv-sanity.com
- cambalache 6y agoYou are around 25 years too late. Since the very beginning Arxiv has been used to publish not only cutting-edge research but also divulgation pieces, reviews, commentaries,workshop's accompanying materials,lecture notes and books.