Don't get a doctorate! (part two)
When I tried to publish my doctoral thesis, it was rejected by the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Navigation. That happens, and tenured professors have told me that sometimes you can re-submit articles to such journals for reconsideration after some tweaking. But in my case, I couldn't help but notice that one of the learned scholars who reviewed my thesis wrote a typical reason for HIS rejection: that I'd used the term "backpropagation" when the CORRECT term is "backpropagation of error." What the scholar said was true, but it was candy-ass. The fact is that researchers of neural nets do not say "backpropagation of error," but instead "backprop." I knew at that moment -- or at least thought I knew -- that I did not want to become a college professor. To do so would turn me into a candy-ass. I mean, what the hell ELSE is backpropagated anywhere in nature or science BESIDES error...?And with respect to the many college professors I know who are conscientious, studious servants of the public good, some of the college professors I know are candy-asses, and even at this very moment are splitting hairs not much different than how to say backprop. Their peer review exercises are not much different from one of my favorite articles to ever appear in the Onion, "Fifth-Grade Science Paper Doesn't Stand Up to Peer Review." (pictured) Someone once looked at a paper of mine and said, "He's like, 'Dur, I'm Ron. I only have to say backprop.'"
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