alt Hacker NewsI'm an industrial electrician. A lot of poor electrical work is visible only to a fellow electrician, and sometimes only another industrial electrician. Bad technical work requires technical inspectors to criticize. Sometimes highly skilled ones.
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I’d love to hear some examples of poor electrical work that you’ve come across that’s often missed or not seen.
No doubt the best electricians are currently better than the best AI, but the best AI is likely now better than the novice homeowner. The trajectory over the past 2 years has been very good. Another five years and AI may be better than all but the very best, or most specialized, electricians.
an old boss of mine used to say there are no stupid electricians found alive, as they self select darwin award style
same (and much, much, much worse) for science
I’ve reviewed a lot of papers, I don’t consider it the reviewers responsibility to manually verify all citations are real. If there was an unusual citation that was relied on heavily for the basis of the work, one would expect it to be checked. Things like broad prior work, you’d just assume it’s part of background.
The reviewer is not a proofreader, they are checking the rigour and relevance of the work, which does not rest heavily on all of the references in a document. They are also assuming good faith.