Peer Review and the NeurIPS Experiment | Two Minute Papers #84
What is peer review and how is it done? How can we check the validity of a paper? And more importantly, how can we be sure that the peer review process is fair and consistent? We'll talk about these things and how the NIPS experiment addresses them.
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The NIPS experiment:
http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/05/embrace-random-acceptance-borderline-papers.html
The showcased earlier episode video:
Artistic Manipulation of Caustics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-0KJtk07YU
A New Publishing Model in Computer Science by Yann LeCun:
http://yann.lecun.com/ex/pamphlets/publishing-models.html
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