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I wouldn't call this a research paper. It doesn't include any research.
by slashdave 2y ago
I wouldn't call this a research paper. It doesn't include any research.
- almostgotcaught 2y agoPLDI disagrees with you. I generally don't care about institutional pedigree but I think in this case I'll defer to them over u/slashdave.
- deredede 2y agoThis is not published at PLDI but at the co-located SOAP workshop.
- almostgotcaught 2y agoLiterally who cares? It's again the same thing: some kind of weird elitism about what qualifies as real research and who qualifies it. It's so simple in my mind: people did good work and they're willing to share it with the world without much in return (just a venue and 30 minutes to talk about it). Cool great I'm all for it no matter whomever/wherever/whatever. There is exactly zero scarcity here anymore that necessitates ranking anything at all.
- slashdave 2y agoI didn't say it wasn't good work, I just said it wasn't research
- deredede 2y agoI don't care where papers are published (in fact I mostly agree with you, I think that the idea that research needs to be novel to everyone currently in the field is harmful and leads to gate-keeping, self-censorship and unpublished folklore). I am merely pointing out that appealing to the authority of PLDI as the premier PL research conference to qualify the paper as research does not work since PLDI did not publish it.
- almostgotcaught 2y ago> I am merely pointing out that appealing to the authority of PLDI as the premier PL research conference to qualify the paper as research I wasn't actually - I was pointing out the contradiction in supporting gatekeeping and then the second-guessing the gatekeepers.