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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I often don't look to see if there's preexisting research that overlaps what I'm working on. I just like *doing* research, the process of it, and there's some intimacy of knowledge that comes from working with the process myself that feels super valuable to me.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Like when I read another paper, I'm never totally sure how much to trust them, what their incentives were. I mean you can make pretty good guesses about it, but it doesn't come close to the directness of making it myself, getting my hands dirty. Feels so good.
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josh
@greenvironmenta
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@Aella_Girl
A big issue I have with most academic papers is that they are bloated. Format (so tradition) dictates a bunch of shit to be put in there that in context doesn't matter. My final published 10 pages could have been written in 4 or less.
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helicopterosaur
@helicopterosaur
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I read papers more like possible actions, then like results. Like an athlete watching a video of another athlete I guess. The papers I'm interested in are the ones where I wanna be able to do what they did in the paper. If they don't have code and data available, it's hard though