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This is written like a literary academic blog article rather than an academic paper in the sciences. It's fully of literary free association and hyperbolic lang
by mjburgess 3y ago
This is written like a literary academic blog article rather than an academic paper in the sciences. It's fully of literary free association and hyperbolic language, etc.
At best it's a sort of mission statement for what would need to be a research programme with many many academic papers behind it. As it is, I'm not sure what the authors aim here is. It's a blog post.
- Cacti 3y agoThere’s lots of crap on Arxiv.
- DonHopkins 3y agoWait, you mean I can use Arxiv as a blog instead of Drupal or Medium? Hold me beer!
- gus_massa 3y agoYep. For example, a few years ago a "cryptography researcher" posted in arXiv a new method to factorize numbers. The fist 10 page were an explanation of the rule that if the sum of the digits of N is a multiple of 3, then N is a multiple of 3. Then he explained something more interesting but the details were uninteligible. I skeemed the second part and I thought it was wrong, but after reading the firt part I didn't bother to verify all the details.
- AIorNot 3y ago[flagged]
- AIorNot 3y agoAlso see: https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Complexity_Hordjik_Formatted.pdf https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Complex...
- master-lincoln 3y agoYou do not seem to address the parent comment at all. Why use the reply button instead of starting a new top level comment thread?
- dmd 3y agoPlease stop doing this. "Novelty" accounts are not welcome on HN, and chatgpt-made posts even less so.
- yieldcrv 3y agolike everything on arxiv
- bordercases 3y agoStuart Kauffman is a figure in the field with much more difficult books if that's more to your liking. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-order-9780195079517 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-order...
- ixaxaar 3y agoI think Kauffman has been developing this set of ideas for a while now. I remember reading his "the origins of order" and find a lot of the ideas from the book here in more evolved forms. He really got me into visualising complex systems and their state spaces etc.
- jyounker 3y agoIt's more like summary of a 30+ year research program with many many many academic papers behind it. He's a leading theoretician of complex systems, and this is probably intended to wrap up his work before he dies, and to provide guidance for those coming after him.
- uoaei 3y agoM J Burgess, "semi-professional philosopher", doesn't recognize the context that this side of complex systems exists in and pooh-poohs the paper, demonstrating the "semi" more than the "professional".
- mjburgess 3y agoGiven a reply I take to be accurate, > It's more like summary of a 30+ year research program I'd say my comment is essentially correct. It is, indeed, a kind of blog article but summarising a massive research programme, rather than defining one. I didnt speak to the validity or status of the content; I spoke to how odd it is in what's taken to be a journal. No journal (of science) would publish this as it is.
- paulpauper 3y agoarxiv is suffering from major mission/feature creep. IMHO, it should be limited to math and physics and maybe quantitative finance. There are too many low quality or blog-like papers being published. Maybe it would be better if it was spun off to a different website.
- nh23423fefe 3y ago>arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. How does arxiv suffer? What mission creep? What do you mean too many?
- paulpauper 3y agoit used to be just math and physics
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