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Nice that you didn't quote the part directly after that: > Luque said he basically uses it to improve his written expression in English What's the problem here

by sgift 4y ago

Nice that you didn't quote the part directly after that: > Luque said he basically uses it to improve his written expression in English What's the problem here? That a non-native speaker now doesn't need as much time to write text in a foreign language?

belter 4y ago
What your comment and others are missing is: The problem here is that the fluency in English, seems to be the main obstacle, to the speed at what he can publish novel research. Maybe if he would be a English, Oxford educated scholar, would not need ChatGPT. Could then maybe do a paper every 4 to 8 hours?
- nequo 4y ago
  As a non-chemist academic, it is fully beyond me how anyone churns out papers at a rate of one every three days. That is the rate he says he has even without relying on ChatGPT. Is there a lot of overlap in the contribution that each of his individual papers make? Or are a lot of these replication studies, carried out by different teams in parallel, with him being a co-author on each of them? I'd be curious to read an academic chemist about how this is possible.
  - fock 4y ago
    He seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual discovery/novel experiment in their first 10 highest cited papers... He now still does those in reputable journals to relatively random, but en-vogue topics. Then he goes out and trades his name to less visible research (which is ok to do) to actual crap in 2nd to predatory tier journals in exchange for more citations (probably citing other works including him ;)). Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.
    - stefan_ 4y ago
      He has just taken the whole "metric becomes the goal" thing to its logical conclusion. If you are only valued by your citation count..
- incone123 4y ago
  Perhaps he could write in his native language and have a machine do the translation. I'm reminded of a story doing the rounds about 25 years ago regarding an engineering document which had been translated by a machine. The team saw a reference to a 'water sheep' which they worked out meant 'hydraulic ram'.
otherme123 4y ago
If your paper goes to a british reviewer, or to a lesser extent an USA one, you are guaranteed to have your english called out. We even hired external translators to polish the paper. Some (british) reviewers had returned the paper with "needs total rewrite, I can't understand the english", while the other says just "minor corrections" non language related. I'm going to use GPT from now on, zero doubt.

by sgift 4y ago

belter 4y ago

What your comment and others are missing is: The problem here is that the fluency in English, seems to be the main obstacle, to the speed at what he can publish novel research. Maybe if he would be a English, Oxford educated scholar, would not need ChatGPT. Could then maybe do a paper every 4 to 8 hours?

nequo 4y ago
As a non-chemist academic, it is fully beyond me how anyone churns out papers at a rate of one every three days. That is the rate he says he has even without relying on ChatGPT. Is there a lot of overlap in the contribution that each of his individual papers make? Or are a lot of these replication studies, carried out by different teams in parallel, with him being a co-author on each of them? I'd be curious to read an academic chemist about how this is possible.
- fock 4y ago
  He seems to have kickstarted his citation count by reviews. This is sadly extremely common; a surprising amount of researchers nowadays don't have an actual discovery/novel experiment in their first 10 highest cited papers... He now still does those in reputable journals to relatively random, but en-vogue topics. Then he goes out and trades his name to less visible research (which is ok to do) to actual crap in 2nd to predatory tier journals in exchange for more citations (probably citing other works including him ;)). Generally possible everywhere, also done in the none-Google/Meta/... world of ML. Just look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9764877/proceeding - just a random collection of crap.
  - stefan_ 4y ago
    He has just taken the whole "metric becomes the goal" thing to its logical conclusion. If you are only valued by your citation count..
incone123 4y ago
Perhaps he could write in his native language and have a machine do the translation. I'm reminded of a story doing the rounds about 25 years ago regarding an engineering document which had been translated by a machine. The team saw a reference to a 'water sheep' which they worked out meant 'hydraulic ram'.

otherme123 4y ago

If your paper goes to a british reviewer, or to a lesser extent an USA one, you are guaranteed to have your english called out. We even hired external translators to polish the paper. Some (british) reviewers had returned the paper with "needs total rewrite, I can't understand the english", while the other says just "minor corrections" non language related. I'm going to use GPT from now on, zero doubt.