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by HilbertSpace 5274 days ago
"Credibility"? Look up the Radon-Nikodym theorem. I suggest Neveu, 'Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability'.

"Rant" is an INSULT. The 'rant' was in the article complaining that they could not get their paper published. I got them back on track.
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SeanLuke 5274 days ago
Perhaps you should look up the term rant as it's used in the CS community. It's hardly an insult.

You didn't seem to respond to my point. This article is largely about Google+'s anti-pseudonymity and its effect on the CS academic community. I dunno if I buy all that, but there's a certain irony to you claiming to have the CS cred to dis this guy while speaking under a pseudonym. Come out of the closet!

IAAI, JOTA, and JIS are a far cry from AAAI, PAMI, and JMLR. I've published in like venues: but citing them doesn't help your Mr. Big Shot stance all that much. :-)

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HilbertSpace 5274 days ago
"Rant" is an insult.

"Far cry" in what sense? The AAAI IAAI conference was about the best could expect from the AAAI.

I published in JIS because it has a wider audience than, say, another Elsevier journal on 'theoretical computer scince' or some such, which I did consider.

For JOTA, I contend that such applied math is closer to the important future of CS than nearly any journal in CS. If I am correct here, and my theme in my post was that CS needs to 'mathematize', then I have been helpful.

There's no "Big Shot", another insult, involved. I just listed where I got published. From the article, one of the leading topics on the Google+ community was the difficulty of getting CS published, and I indicated that I had essentially been successful even though I wasn't much interested.

For the academic 'pecking order' of the journals, I have never cared since I've never had any academic aspirations.

But for someone having trouble getting published, the journals I listed are a big step up from no publications. So, if they can do what I did, then they would be ahead. So, my advice should have been seen as helpful, which was clearly the intention.

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Kaizyn 5273 days ago
Talking about what journals you have published in and why is way off topic in this thread. Not surprisingly, it got you downvoted.
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