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Real science is reserved for those with real expertise! As the self-anointed gatekeeper of real science I decree that other peoples’ work fails to meet the minimum standard I have set for real science! Mind you not the work other actors in the scientific community publish and accept among their peers - they are not real scientists and their work is trivial. For shame!

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Strongly disagree. I do think trivial work is not paper-worthy and it would be more beneficial not to publish such work, as it mostly a waste of time for the peer reviewing it and the readers who will gain nothing from reading it. It's no lie that most publish for the sake of publishing and this post just calls it out for what it is.

Trivial means different things to different people. I’m not really a fan of LLM hype but it seems to me a valid practice of scientific discovery to evaluate the use and optimization of such models.

The real shame is that even HN has fallen into the trap of missing obvious and funny sarcasm unless it is clearly labeled.

Sarcasm is often spoken with a sarcastic inflection. It doesn't translate well to text, regardless of the community.

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