czar_el t1_j0uu183 wrote on December 19, 2022 at 4:20 PM

Reply to comment by gBoostedMachinations in [D] Will there be a replacement for Machine Learning Twitter? by MrAcurite

"What's wrong with flying in a plane before it's passed inspection?"

there_are_no_owls t1_j0wcf54 wrote on December 19, 2022 at 10:18 PM

Depends on how much you trust the inspection... >.>

Hyper1on t1_j0wrenm wrote on December 20, 2022 at 12:06 AM

Obviously very different situations, since plane inspections are actually reliable. These days I don't view a preprint as any different to a NeurIPS paper, since if I read the preprint and think it's good then essentially the only difference is that one has passed the NeurIPS reviewer lottery. I advise all ML researchers to just trust themselves, read the preprint, and if they think it's valuable then feel free to cite it.

dinkboz t1_j0xr6xg wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:49 AM

Im just knocking on ML researchers for citing preprints all the time lol. This is very much frowned upon in mechanical engineering (I apply ML to mechE problems), so Im just giving you guys a hard time for doing things differently. In most of the cases, I don’t think it’s a big issue.