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• jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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?

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    • jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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