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On 7/17/22 11:52 AM, Grossberg, Stephen wrote:<br>
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> ... if you believe in your work, and the criticisms of it are
not valid, do not give up. ...<br>
<br>
<p>> ... all criticisms by reviewers are valuable and should be
taken into account in your revision.</p>
> Even if a reviewer's criticisms are, to your mind,
wrong-headed, they represent the<br>
> viewpoint of a more-than-usually-qualified reader who has given
you the privilege<br>
> of taking enough time to read your article.<br>
<p>Really?<br>
</p>
<p>1) I believe in my work, and the criticisms of it are not valid.
I did not give up, and the net result of not giving up was ...
nothing.<br>
</p>
<p>2) No reviewer who has ever commented on my work has shown the
slightest sign that they understood anything in it.</p>
<p>3) Good plumbers are more than usually qualified in their field,
and if one of those gave you the privilege of taking enough time
to read your article and give nonsensical comments, would you pay
any attention to their viewpoint?<br>
</p>
<p>** - **<br>
</p>
<p>I have spent my career fighting against this system, to no avail.</p>
I have watched charlatans bamboozle the crowd with pointless
mathematics, and get published.
<p>I have watched people use teams of subordinates to pump out
streams of worthless papers that inflate their prestige.</p>
<p>I have written grant proposals that were exquisitely tuned to the
stated goal of the grant, and then watched as the grant money went
to people whose proposals had only the faintest imaginable
connection to the stated goal of the grant.</p>
<p>** - **</p>
<p>The quoted remarks, above, somehow distilled all of that history
and left me shaking with rage at the stupidity.<br>
</p>
<p>I have been a member of the Connectionists mailing list since the
early 1990s, and before that I had been working on neural nets
since 1980.</p>
<p>No more.</p>
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