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Good post 📉📈 This caught my eye If I wanted to {estimate some numbers real good} / {build the engineering pipelines to do so} with the latest methods published in <top_journal>, seems clear that: 1. I could not publish in <top_journal> 2. The folks who do the engineering get little/no credit

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A few steps ahead, this all seems downstream of our culture of premature optimization. Yes it's efficient to emphasize <top_journal>s and to make each paper better but the opportunity costs are big and a lot of our science is frankly unusable

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