Episode 4: Architecture

What are biases? Why are they important?

Episode 3: Biases

What are biases? Why are they important?

Sellout!

I decided to show a little restraint about what I post here.

Its not a decision I made lightly; but basically every researcher I talked to said that it really is a concern and it really does happen. Meh.

The effect for all of you is:

• I'll stop stuffing around and get back to posting videos
• As we get more technical, there's some implementation details I'll leave out. I'll record everything, just hold video.
• Once I publish my findings in journals, I'll post the previously redacted material online.

I wish there was a good solution for online publication where I could include these videos as research or something.

On sharing

I had a big 'discussion' with my supervisor yesterday about sharing my ideas online. He's worried that other researchers (perhaps subconsciously) will take my ideas and incorporate them into their own work. If they do that and publish before I do, it will be very difficult for me to publish and get my PhD.

The whole idea of hording ideas seems so wrong to me... I'm never going to run out of good ideas. But maybe he's right about the academic stuff. And it would kinda suck if someone published my research.

Sam's take on it is "If they really do beat you to it, they deserve it." He's probably right... but... Urgh.

My options:

• Keep doing my video blog anyway
  
• Only talk about what I'm reading about and background stuff. Self-censor the meaty details
• Hold some / all posts until I've published the work (or at least, some work so others can cite me)
  
• Abandon the video blog entirely

I'm nervous about all of those options. I see a great amount of value in the video blog for myself and hopefully other people too. It would be a real shame to remove that out of fear.

Also, apparently even if other academics wanted to cite the work I'm doing, they'll have a hard time with it until I publish my work in a journal. Whats with academia completely failing to discover the humble URL? Cool URLs don't change and the URL was invented exactly for the purpose of interrelated papers.

Sigh.