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Really not sure how you’re conflating product demos which are known to be pie in the sky across the industry (not just Google) with peer reviewed research publi
by rajup 2y ago
Really not sure how you’re conflating product demos which are known to be pie in the sky across the industry (not just Google) with peer reviewed research published in journals. Super basic distinction imho.
- stackghost 2y ago>peer reviewed research published in journals Peer review doesn't mean as much as Elsevier would like you to believe. Plenty of peer-reviewed research is absolute trash.
- throwaway2037 2y agoAll of the highest impact papers authored by DeepMind and Google Brain have appeared in Nature, which is the gold standard for peer-reviewed natural science research. What exactly are you trying to claim about Google's peer-reviewed papers?
- stackghost 2y agoNature is just as susceptible to the perverse incentives at play in the academic publishing market as anyone else, and has had their share of controversies over the years including having to retract papers after they were found to be bogus. In and of itself, "Being published in a peer reviewed journal" does not place the contents of a paper beyond reproach or criticism.
- gabegobblegoldi 2y agoPeer review is not designed to combat fraud.
- nautilius 2y agoFrom personal experience: in Nature Communications the handling editor and editor in chief absolutely do intervene, in my example to suppress a proper lit review that would have revealed the paper under review as much less innovative than claimed.