Yoav Goldberg on academia's core misery: ranking incomparable things without a metric
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-25
NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg sums up the behind-the-scenes of academic life: consistently being forced to assess items — papers, proposals, people — that are not comparable, without a clear metric, then picking the top K and discarding the rest. "I hate it," he writes.
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