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hattulanHuumeparoni t1_j0yb16m wrote

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

At that point you're just citing a blog post with the aesthetics of a research article. No peer review, no editor to push back. Mind you, these things don't necessarily make the paper good, but they are useful sanity checks.

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gBoostedMachinations t1_j102w53 wrote

Sure but I have never had any problem separating the wheat from the chaff. I can read them myself and decide whether the work is done well. Often the authors can be vetted as well.

If a reader of my own paper has a problem with me citing preprints they can read the paper themselves and decide if it’s appropriate. But the fact that it’s a preprint itself doesn’t really matter.

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hattulanHuumeparoni t1_j109pxc wrote

Uhh I don't think anyone is gonna read through all your citations just to check if they're legit or not...

EDIT: so why not just bite the bullet and move to blog posts instead of preprints?

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