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This is super impressive! Do you need to publish an academic paper also, to avoid some unethical scholar "discovering" a slight variation of your idea without
by upwardbound 4y ago
This is super impressive! Do you need to publish an academic paper also, to avoid some unethical scholar "discovering" a slight variation of your idea without citing your blog? I don't know anything about how academic publishing works, and I'd hate to see you be deprived of credit.
- raphlinus 4y agoI would be quite flattered by an unethical scholar plagiarizing from my work, it would be far better than being ignored. The actual conversation about motivation to publish a paper is a fairly deep topic. In this particular case, I do think it's worthwhile for a variety of reasons: * The literature dates back about 40 years, and no really good solution has been published. * The most commonly cited survey paper is possibly fundamentally wrong. * One of the most commonly cited and used techniques is surprisingly bad. * The curve-fitting technique I propose probably has many other applications; in the best case, it could potentially open up a new field of study. So part of my motivation for publishing the blog post is to see if I can recruit a partner in crime, someone who has incentive for publication in academic circles. We'll see!