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jeffhykin@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is why my field (reinforcement learning) is not a science
Comment on I have attempted science.
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is why my field (reinforcement learning) is not a science
overcast5348@lemmy.world 8 months ago
…because people don’t accept that it’s wrong? Or some other reason?
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I guess I should’ve clarified; negative results are incredibly hard to publish. Nobody cares if a reinforcement learning hypothesis didn’t work, its only worth publishing if it did work well.
overcast5348@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gotcha.
I thought that was the norm in all academia these days? Can a physicist (or anyone from another field) publish results that didn’t go as expected and save future scientists some time?
jeffhykin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I know a good bit of micro biology, psychology, and medical trial fields can. But thats about the limit of my “other fields” knowledge.