Something I saw on a cooking show that perfectly applies to academic papers: the simpler the idea, the better the execution has to be. If the idea is simple, even small flaws in writing or evaluation will seem big to reviewers.
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Replying to @vj_chidambaram
I know why generally, but it's really too bad, isn't it?
@michael_w_hicks was telling me the story of how he's made some papers more crisp and simpler, usually simplifying complicated math (e.g., category theory down to lambda calculus w/ a twist) and reviewers see it as worse.1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes -
I think there must be something inherent in our assessment of things, we're more impressed by "how hard would this have been for me to do" rather than "is this objectively a good idea." Bears keeping in mind.
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Yup! That doesn’t mean you get to do a sloppy evaluation just because the idea is simple though.
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Sloppy evaluation is never OK. Smaller, but well-scoped, evaluation might be (for a surprising/big/amazing idea). Claims must match the evaluation. (They almost never do.)
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+1. It is so frustrating reviewers don't get this. One PC I was on accepted a paper that didn't evaluate/prove its main claim. Other reviewers felt it was interesting anyway, opted to accept.
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Replying to @vj_chidambaram @michael_w_hicks and
it really depends. some evals provide nothing new but just to make a paper look complete, while some great papers simply don't need an eval in the traditional sense - see "A Decentralized Model for Information Flow Control" http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/iflow-sosp97.pdf …
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Replying to @bipartite @michael_w_hicks and
Agree it depends on the paper, but papers like what you point are extremely rare (the case I'm talking about is considerably more pedestrian). The job of an eval isn't to provide "something new" but rather to prove the main claims of the paper.
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if they are rare then maybe we should accept more such papers.
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