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When I think about how most papers are written by a student, with credit given to their professor, and I think of what a mess is code written by developers the same age as those grad students... It’s amazing we get as much right as we do.

And I know we are getting things right because I have a phone in my pocket that has surmounted thousands upon thousands of puzzles in physics and chemistry over the last twenty years to do what it does.

I’d wager that most papers in most fields are bullshit, but it doesn’t matter because no one reads them or bothers to attempt applying them or building on them.

Didn't you mean to say 95.274% ?

Reminds me that 47.72% of all statistics are completely made up.

In my field (robotics, ML) many papers are not interesting or overstate the consequences of the result, but I wouldn't go as far as to say 95% are bullshit.