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At least for some of the Machine Learning and related papers (specially old ones), to reproduce the experiment should be relatively easy.
Reproducing those would also be a big step towards understanding them better.
you must be way smarter than me. it can take me months / years to understand papers that are not in my field.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm an extremely pragmatic sort of reader and will move on from material once I "feel" I have a grasp of the concepts involved and can "see where the author(s) are coming from". Others might not be comfortable with saying they understand a paper until they reach a similar level of insight as the authors and perhaps even the level to reproduce the results.
This is all lame, building websites, reading papers. These activities are good in their own stead but they don't help the world or achive something spectacular. Why do people want such quick returns. I give you 2 decades, win me a Noble prize.
> they don't help the world or achive something spectacular Sure they do. What if I become really good at summarizing papers for laymen? What if I then start a publishing house for good laymen explanations of science? What if this then leads to the abolishment of all those stupid "Caffeine will give you cancer lololol" articles your mum reads? Or maybe I'll just learn a lot and use it as an advantage somewhere else.…
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I think you need a little quality control on the tags. What's with all the "keyboard mash" tags, ie. ArxicwxQlRqh? http://sciencegist.com/tags
Fixed. Sorry! I had a recent bout with spammers :/ You can add a gist anonymously if you don't like to expose yourself, but having that functionality is quite dangerous online, for obvious reasons. I don't like captchas, but I'll have to add them soon (for anonymous contributions) if this continues.
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Any interesting papers on your list you do not mind sharing?
First up is "High-resolution reversible folding of hyperstable RNA tetraloops using molecular dynamics simulations" Chen & Garcia (September 16, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1309392110 PNAS September 16, 2013) which is a bit of a cheat because I'm teaching it next week, and I know Alan. The following week will be; "Oral Treatment Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response Prevents Neurodegeneration and Clinical Disease in Pr…
You know what? I wish that you get rich with that! Everbody would benefit from more openness in Science. I hate that many many publishers squeeze scientists out like parasitic worms and also cash on us and other scientist who just want to read the paper. They rip us off in the range of $5-$300 per paper and do that with mostly keeping 100% of the profit.
Their industry damaging business model: A←parasite-publisher→B
Breaking Bad: With an open business model: A←→B←→C←→D …