I have a paper I'd like submitted for review by serious phds and academics, but am outside of academia. Is there a way to submit this paper online? Thanks!
Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#2This is the paper by the way. I haven't had anyone who has been willing to review it, I'm completely out of money and I just want to know if any of my conclusions are correct at this point. I don't know if this is the appropriate forum for review by academics per se but this is one of the more serious minded forums I've come across.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d4yznf0v2e71ksw/Sep11EarlyMorning....
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#3Not strictly for review, but for serious publishing: https://arxiv.org
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#4Not strictly for review, but for serious publishing: https://arxiv.org
My impression with arxiv is that it's for after the paper has been reviewed to make the information as widely as accessible as possible. I'm more interested in places that would review the paper in the first place.
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#5I'm not entirely sure about it but these days, if you format your blog post and references in a specific way (APA/MLA citations, etc.), Google will consider it a scholarly article and show it in the results of Google Scholar. I'm not sure whether any academics will consider it or not, but it'll enter google scholar results and will be visible to them.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#6Not strictly for review, but for serious publishing: https://arxiv.org
My impression with arxiv is that it's for after the paper has been reviewed to make the information as widely as accessible as possible. I'm more interested in places that would review the paper in the first place.
Yes, like said. Also I did not see your first draft of writing before. First which comes to my mind when seeing it: It seems you are not referencing any existing work of scientists, which will be a large caveat for many, because that is like science works – enhance what others have done, prove your starting or side points of your arguments by citing what others found, do not do everything from scratch.
Don't write about what you think something is like (e.g. NN), but prove it is like that by citing the right sources, which you have read.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
My impression with arxiv is that it's for after the paper has been reviewed to make the information as widely as accessible as possible. I'm more interested in places that would review the paper in the first place.
Yes, like said. Also I did not see your first draft of writing before. First which comes to my mind when seeing it: It seems you are not referencing any existing work of scientists, which will be a large caveat for many, because that is like science works – enhance what others have done, prove your starting or side points of your arguments by citing what others found, do not do everything from scratch. Don't write ab…
Yeah understandable. The paper is ambitious in that it starts from first principles in some areas by necessity, but I would have to have someone check for consistency and references to Husserl, Heideger, Lacan, Plato, Korzybski, Zizek, modality theory, vagueness, and more and that's just for philosophy. The neural networks is an issue in that I don't know if my references to A^ are addressed within neural networks currently, but I provide some evidence that they don't appear to be.
Mostly I just want someone to read my paper because the ideas are rather startling to me, but I don't know if this has been done before. If it's original work I think there are important reasons to have it published so everyone can read it at once, which is explained in the paper. But I may be completely off base.
To the extent that the lack of citation invalidates the conclusions of the paper? I don't know. I think that Korzybski's attitude towards maps, and several other areas where academics have been building on incorrect ideas (such as the theory of interest or that this would necessitate a Marxian dialectic in opposition), mean that original research need be done without necessarily building off of recent research.
Again, super ambitious paper. I could be entirely wrong.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#8I'm not entirely sure about it but these days, if you format your blog post and references in a specific way (APA/MLA citations, etc.), Google will consider it a scholarly article and show it in the results of Google Scholar. I'm not sure whether any academics will consider it or not, but it'll enter google scholar results and will be visible to them.
Thanks, I might try that!
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#9The usual deal would be to ask colleagues in the field, but (since that's not available) asking relevant experts on the understanding that most won't reply due to pressure of time, and that's OK. Not my field, so no proper comments from me, but
- that hand-drawn figure needs sorting
- no references?
- for a review copy, 1.5-spacing and wide margins, for a "readable" copy, rework the typography, no underlining, no ragged-right etc.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a way to submit academic papers online for review?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, like said. Also I did not see your first draft of writing before. First which comes to my mind when seeing it: It seems you are not referencing any existing work of scientists, which will be a large caveat for many, because that is like science works – enhance what others have done, prove your starting or side points of your arguments by citing what others found, do not do everything from scratch. Don't write ab…
Yeah understandable. The paper is ambitious in that it starts from first principles in some areas by necessity, but I would have to have someone check for consistency and references to Husserl, Heideger, Lacan, Plato, Korzybski, Zizek, modality theory, vagueness, and more and that's just for philosophy. The neural networks is an issue in that I don't know if my references to A^ are addressed within neural networks cu…
Just a further note: "AI" is a completely misleading name. No one (sane) in the "AI" business thinks of it as being intelligent. It's just automated statistics (it IS probabilistic) which can find patterns in data. So an An A' pattern won't fit.
Also it usually has much less than a single hundred layers.