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matthewdgreentoday at 4:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

This sort of thing is really useful for helping people to understand what the purpose of scientific publication is. It's not about presenting finished products to society, it's more like a Discord where you communicate new findings with other authors. Often the reason for a communication is because you found something weird, and you want other people to know about it so they can help you confirm or rule it out as bad data. People shouldn't feel gunshy about this. (My field even has a conference for failed results, CFAIL.) I like to highlight examples of this stuff, because I see so many angry online comments when a paper turns out to be "wrong" or doesn't replicate.


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megagpt2today at 4:39 PM

They were - in the past. I imagine that right now, Discord is their Discord.

irishcoffeetoday at 4:17 PM

You have accurately described a email mailing list. Where in the value-add here?

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