Not all battles are fought with a sword
It’s pretty cool when you update your repository and see
At revision 400
We just hit that on the genetic programming book that Riccardo and Bill and I are working on; we’re currently averaging close to 10 commits a day here in the final stages. We hope to wrap it up in the next 1.5 weeks and then off to the printers for fun (and no profit in the traditional sense)!
P.S. Anyone want to proof read a few pages? Get in touch and we can work something out.
Just finished my GECCO reviewing, and I must say that is seriously sucks when people don’t attend to even the most basic of issues. Two things almost guaranteed to majorly annoy a reviewer:
And just guess the average publication date of 8 fine references.
1985.
Yeah, over 20 years ago.
3 entries were books (two of which were over 10 years old), and the only 2 journal articles were from 1938 and 1964 respectively.
Strangely enough, I didn’t encourage acceptance of that paper.
The really depressing thing is that most of our (undergraduate) students at UMM would do better than this.
No, maybe that’s the uplifting thing.
Maybe the really depressing thing is that I see papers with this kind of bibliography fairly often. I’d almost recommend some sort of automatic rejection system for obviously stupid bibliographies, but then people would just start padding their bibliographies with random citations to get past that blockade.
Sigh.
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