So on this last paper … I spent a year and a half working on the project, six intensive weeks implementing our software doing a crash-course implementation on a testing platform only available for a short time, put the project on hold for a bit during that whole dot-com dancing, and then spent many evenings over the last six months … and most of the evenings over the last month … putting together a 10,000 word paper.
End result? I’m unsatisfied. I feel like I and my colleagues busted our balls to get this done, and I’m satisfied with the text of the paper qua being a paper … but scientifically, I think we’d need to put out another 50% more effort to get it up to my standards of what’s really "good". We needed to do many more evaluations (not that we could, as we lost our testbed) but even given that I think the whole paper needed to be more rigorous, more carefully thought out, more in depth.
It’s like I had to work my ass off just to get it to the point where I could really see how far I had to go.
Depressing.
-the Centaur
