Tag: peer review
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Getting away with it
One thing that working towards a PhD has taught me is that textbooks are of low value in academia. Of course great textbooks are essential works, but in the end a textbook is not a peer reviewed publication: it’s what you and the publisher think you can get away with. And, yes, some text books…
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Broken peer review is nothing new
I have been pressing on with The Annotated Turing and have now made it to page 163. And I see no reason to withdraw my earlier enthusiastic partial review: I just wish I’d read it a year or more ago as it has no immediate bearing on the MSc this year, though is still a…
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