Why I love preprints
The most frequent argument revolves around fear of losing priority of discovery. My usual question is: Have you ever felt that one of your peer reviewed papers is not cited and given credit when it should have been?
The most frequent argument revolves around fear of losing priority of discovery. My usual question is: Have you ever felt that one of your peer reviewed papers is not cited and given credit when it should have been?
It is widely discussed, most prominently by Alberts et al., that the current academic culture is increasingly suppressing the creativity, …
Michael I. Jordan, one of the most prominent statisticians of our time, warns that “The overeager adoption of big data …
One might introduce Egas Moniz as the great Nobel laureate and Dmitri Mendeleev as a chemist with few great awards. Much more informatively, however, one should introduce Egas Moniz as an influential protagonist of lobotomy and Dmitri Mendeleev as the co-inventor of the periodic table of elements.
We are fortunate to live in an exciting time. Today, new technologies enable the design and execution of straightforward experiments, …
I still remember very clearly the key reason behind my decision to attend MIT about a decade ago. It was …