The Lonely Researcher: A Loser?


	The Lonely Researcher: A Loser?

Sheroug

3-15-2008 12:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/625a4ef0-255b-458f-80ea-159acacb6dee/353C9847-91CC-4020-969B-5EBDC0DE173D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/" href="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.daniel-lemire.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/"><H1 id="post-1159"><A href="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/" rel="bookmark">The lonely researcher: a loser?</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/"><P>In Computer Science, there are so few single-author papers — how can you do a sane analysis? I propose the following comparison.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/">Single-author papers are riskier, but can be more original:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/">
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">You can work on weird or highly risky projects: you only have to convince 
yourself. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/">You have to wait for formal peer review before you get feedback. Fast feedback 
tends to help you improve faster. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/">
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">You have to increase your breadth. You may need to run your own experiments 
as well derive new theories. 
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Except for a few reviewers, you may end up being the sole human being to 
know about your contribution. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/"><P>Multi-author papers are safer, but can get bureaucratic:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/"><LI value="0">You have to choose safe topics if you want others to be interested. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2008/03/14/the-lonely-researcher-a-loser/"><LI value="0">You often do not fully appreciate and understand the work delegated to others. You tend to focus on what you know best and become more specialized. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/353C9847-91CC-4020-969B-5EBDC0DE173D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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