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This is not specific to math. To non-academics, you basically have to rewrite your commit history to make it seem more impressive. You often write the motivatio
by bonoboTP 2mo ago
This is not specific to math. To non-academics, you basically have to rewrite your commit history to make it seem more impressive. You often write the motivation section last. At least math publication culture allows saying "We consider the problem of" and then solve it. In AI/ML academic papers you need much more "story" around why, what the applications are, why aren't you doing something else, defend against lack-of-novelty attacks, defend against "this is just A + B known techniques used together" etc.
- maleldil 2mo agoYeah, publishing in ML can be annoying because of that. What's wrong with "I thought this problem was interesting"?
- matherial 2mo agoBecause your institution's PR department and the journal you're publishing in want the publicity of "scientist cures cancer". And you probably wrote "I'm curing cancer" in your grant application, team charter, or whatnot.
- Terr_ 2mo agoComic: "The Science News Cycle" - https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174