Questions requesting an answer supported by reliable evidence and including citations to said evidence. This is in contrast to questions requesting answers based mainly on personal experience.
Questions tagged [reference-request]
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Why does the Statistics community publish in journals while the Machine Learning community presents at conferences?
I got my Bachelor's degree in Statistics and I'm starting graduate school to study Computer Science (CS) with an emphasis on Data Mining. One of the big differences that I've noticed between the Statistics and the ML communities is that Statistics…
j.jerrod.taylor
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Is there an academic counterpart to Grahams hierarchy of disagreement?
Paul Graham's hierarchy of disagreement (http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Disagreement-en.svg) is a quite well known model for classification of disagreeing responses,…
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How often academic inventions have already been invented in private companies?
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at how often academic inventions have already been in private companies (or public but secretive organizations, e.g. the RSA cryptosystem was first discovered UK intelligence agency GCHQ)?
I am most…
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Recommendation/reference letter request
I am planning to apply for The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) scholarship and applicants are encouraged to have a recommendation letter from members of the TWAS. Is it ok to ask someone who is not personally familiar with my work?
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Willingness to share ideas that could turn into a paper
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at researchers' willingness to publicly share ideas that could potentially turn into a paper?
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Translation of some paper?
I am painfully trying to read this paper by H. Poincaré:
Sur les Equations Linéaires aux Différentielles Ordinaires et aux Différences Finies
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Unfortunately this is in French, which I studied many, many years ago and have now almost…
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How to reference the official oracle documentation?
I would like to reference some material from the official Oracle documentation for my bachelor thesis. The piece of documentation I want to include is giving information about data types. The problem I have is that I didn't find any information…
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How to ask for reference from a non-academic acquaintance?
I have a non-academic acquaintance who is at a senior position in the telecom industry. He might have good links in academia. I am thinking to ask him for suggesting or referring me to his contacts in academia for a post-doctoral position. I do not…
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Listing a professor as a reference who hasn't responded to my request
This is the age-old reference-letter-no-response problem, but with a small twist. I'm applying to a programme where the applications close very soon. I have been trying to reach a professor over the last two weeks who supervised me for a research…
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Why can't applicants ask for letters of recommendation on potential employers/bosses?
Employers/bosses need reference letters from previous employers to assess applicants. Why can this not happen the other way round? It should've been a 2 way peer review stream. Applicants should have legitimate reasons to ask for reference letters…
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