Fuck, this reminded me of a PHD student I tried to help with their thesis project. It was apparently too hard to get good data for their proposed model (lazy & would take time). So, find any old data and jam it into their model and voila, thesis done. I stopped helping before that point.
It’s honestly not his fault either. Science is publish or die these days. Taking your time to craft an excellent paper is rewarded less than the shotgun approach of firing off like 15 that barely meet the most basic requirements
Fuck, this reminded me of a PHD student I tried to help with their thesis project. It was apparently too hard to get good data for their proposed model (lazy & would take time). So, find any old data and jam it into their model and voila, thesis done. I stopped helping before that point.
It’s honestly not his fault either. Science is publish or die these days. Taking your time to craft an excellent paper is rewarded less than the shotgun approach of firing off like 15 that barely meet the most basic requirements
Ha yes this is true. The field was computer vision and AI, which is evolving so rapidly you'd see many papers published every week.