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diff --git a/content/en/blog/2021115-rejected.md b/content/en/blog/2021115-rejected.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..678ec64 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/blog/2021115-rejected.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +date: 2021-11-15 +title: "JACM paper rejected" +linkTitle: "JACM paper rejected" +description: "reflections" +author: Dimitri Staessens +--- + +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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