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by tralarpa 2129 days ago
> Negative results are important. Null results are of very limited interest.

Correct. There is a highly cited paper in CS where the author showed that a mathematical model that was widely used in research didn't actually work (anymore) in reality. That paper was the starting point of a lot of new research in that field.

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Can you add a citation for that paper?