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by felippee
2888 days ago
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Author here (of the post, not the paper). I think you don't understand how science works. The whole point of the exercise (which indeed may have been forgotten these days) is to attack ideas/papers. The first line of attack should be your friends to make sure you don't put anything out there that is silly. The second line of attack are the reviewers, who may or may not be idiots themselves, but in the perfect world should serve the same purpose. The third line attack are independent readers, people like me. I found it to be trivial, took my liberty to attack it. It is not personal and should not be taken so. These guys may in the future publish the most amazing piece of research ever. But this one is not it. They should realize this and my blog post serves this purpose. If somebody gets offended and takes it personally, so be it. I think people should have a bit thicker skin, especially in science. I took quite a bit of bullshit myself (and I'm sure I will have to take more) and never complained. So relax, read the paper, read the post, learn something from both and go on. |
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"you don't understand how science works" - this is attacking a person, not an idea.
The blog post:
"Perhaps this would be less shocking, if they'd sat down and instead of jumping straight to Tensorflow, they could realize" [...]
"They apparently have spent to much time staring into the progress bars on their GPU's to realize they are praising something obvious, obvious to the point that it can be constructed by hand in several lines of python code."
This makes assumptions about the authors, and all but calls them idiots. That entire paragraphs drip with sarcasm, of which one can only assume you're smart enough to be aware and have intended. You made it personal, and that's exactly what the GP is noting when they term your blog post a "hit piece".
Yes, people have used explicit coordinates as features before. No, this paper isn't going to radically change the world, but if you're arguing from "science", that _doesn't matter_ at all. Science is full of rediscovery and duplication, and tolerates it just fine. What matters most is that we filter out things that are wrong -- and I don't think that's obviously the case with this paper. "Trivial" is a subjective determination, and while one part of the job of refereeing a journal or conference is to try to rank things as a service to the audience, it's not the most important aspect of a reviewer's job.
Just because you took a lot of bullshit doesn't mean it's OK. It's not OK if people were jerks to you in this way, and it's not OK to pass it on.