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“We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible.“ Damn, I miss the days when I had the opportunity to actually do t
by low_tech_love 6y ago
“We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible.“ Damn, I miss the days when I had the opportunity to actually do that. As a researcher, nowadays I’m forced to skim over many papers a day without having the time to actually study them and learn something deep about what the authors proposed. Anyone else thinks that the joy of creating/learning has been replaced by the need of constant output and technical literature feels really shallow nowadays?
- beagle3 6y agoIn what way are you “forced”? I assume you aren’t tenured - but I do know several tenured academics who got off the treadmill and are doing just that.
- low_tech_love 6y agoThere is a multitude of different papers coming out on each subject every day, most with small shallow contributions, and I need to keep up. When I do my own writing, I need to compare and state how I’m improving on them. Paper publishing is an extremely lucrative business, so technical papers are flowing like an endless river, regardless of quality or depth. Edit: I have a permanent position (outside the US system) but from my experience a tenure simply means more work. You need to keep up with the output if you want to do high-impact research, and it’s simply too much (in my opinion).
- beagle3 6y agoPerhaps try to find a less crowded niche. When Ziv approached information theory it was nearly empty by the standards of the time (.. and everything was much less crowded than today, also publish or perish wasn’t yet a thing)