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+date: 2021-11-15
+title: "JACM paper rejected"
+linkTitle: "JACM paper rejected"
+description: "reflections"
+author: Dimitri Staessens
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+
+This weekend we got word from the paper we submitted to JACM early
+2019. Not too surprised that it was rejected. Actually, rather
+surprised that we still hear of it after 3 years. So thanks to the
+reviewer for his/her time.  The rejection was justified, and I got
+something useful out of it.
+
+I've written over 30 research papers in my first years at university,
+most went from first conception to a paper in less than a month. I had
+only 2 rejects. That's because they contained only work and very
+little ideas. I was bored out of my skull. It took me months to write
+the Ouroboros paper. Because I had no clear-cut conclusion yet to work
+towards. And definitely no engineering results.
+
+Publish or perish. To write publications, you need results. To
+get results you need time. To get time you need funding. To get
+funding you need publications. The vicious circle ensuring that
+academics can't take on any long-term high-risk endeavour that doesn't fit the
+ever shortening funding cycles.  What a waste of time.. Rob Pike
+[saw it 20 years ago](http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html).
+
+There's a joke that in most jobs, people hope to win to lottery so
+they can quit. But in academia, they hope to win the lottery so they
+can keep it.
+
+Carl Sagan famously said that great claims require great evidence.
+We've failed (and wasted tons of research time) trying to squeeze a
+paper out of this work-in-progress. As I detailed in a
+[previous blog post](blog/2021/03/20/how-does-ouroboros-relate-to-rina-the-recursive-internetwork-architecture/),
+there is a lot of research and [implementation
+work](https://tree.taiga.io/project/dstaesse-ouroboros/epics) (not
+necessarily in that order) to be done before we can _comfortably_
+write a paper on these ideas. We'll just have to ride it out.
+
+Direction is more important than speed.
+
+Cheers,
+
+Dimitri
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