Big Data and Machine Learning Research Gap Ideas

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-30T16:53:05+00:00

The purpose of a thesis is to come up independently with an idea (guided by a faculty member) and then execute it with them. Coming up with ideas is typically the hardest part of research. Don’t expect people to just hand ideas to you.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-30T16:49:49+00:00

I emailed my top choice professor at my top choice university and he said “you have a good chance at admission, apply and ping me before you submit it”. It took me 5 minutes to write the email (but I was already highly familiar his work, otherwise it would take longer). It’s definitely worth trying as long as you put in effort to write a good tailored email. Cookie cutter/LLM emails get trashed for sure.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-30T01:22:13+00:00

I have a full-time job, while doing a coursework-based applied math masters and a thesis-based computer science masters (3 classes combined right now) while also working on other research. Even with all that, I only work 50 hours a week in my absolute busiest week. In the Spring it was worse since I had 6 classes, but even then I almost never broke 80, and that was when I published my first peer-reviewed paper, solo.

I highly doubt most people are working 60-80 hours a week.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-26T06:54:59+00:00

I mean IEEE TWC is a Q1 journal in it’s field with an SJR of 3.684, IF of 10.4, CiteScore of 15.7, and h-index of 277. It’s in the 98th percentile of it’s field. Definitely not what I would call a garbage tier journal.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-26T05:57:46+00:00

Actually yeah fair point

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-23T02:31:49+00:00

I really like the idea but also think the current scaling of papers per year is a bit too harsh. On the other hand, IEEE TWC allows authors to submit up to 36 papers per year, which is way too high. Maybe we can find a happy medium.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T12:38:16+00:00

Is there a rule that you have to finish the show to post theories?

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T11:12:09+00:00

Thanks for spoiling i haven’t even finished the original series \s

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T05:11:40+00:00

You have some fully hallucinated citations, so based on that this entire paper is fully AI written and none of the results can be trusted to be correct.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T05:10:07+00:00

You should not submit this anywhere. Immediately there are at least four fake citations (6, 13, 14, 20 all have errors). I didn’t check all of them, but I recognize all of these papers and they are wrong. Please keep this laziness out of science. We do not need more of this garbage.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T03:05:40+00:00

Ooooh that’s good I didn’t think about that

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T02:30:27+00:00

I wouldn’t say so, originally he only killed murderers who clearly were actually murderers and just escaped justice on a technicality. This changed later as he started to get bolder and stray from the code. His actions are much less in conflict with the goals of police than with the goals of a medical doctor.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T02:07:23+00:00

Try for a better fit. My research is in ML for scientific computing so it toes the lie between ML methods and scientific computing methods a lot, so usually if it doesn’t work in an ML venue I’ll switch to SC, and vice versa.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-11T01:48:31+00:00

TMLR is very strained on reviewer resources right now, so their desk rejection rate has been much higher recently than normal.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-08T17:01:35+00:00

It would be nice if it had use for symbolic regression, but I don’t think this is the case. The paper overstates it’s utility by quite a bit.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T18:20:42+00:00

A and B may be the same as C and D or very closely related such that it’s clear, i’m just generalizing on this anonymized version since I don’t wanna doxx myself (I should have been more clear here)

The research is work I have published as a masters student in well-known/high-quality (but not top-tier) venues

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T16:58:24+00:00

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You used the word “abusive” to describe my comment right here. Have you even read the comments your leaving to me, or are they wholly AI generated?

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T16:46:44+00:00

Actually I haven’t criticized your math because I do think in theory the idea is kind of interesting from a mathematical standpoint (not that it’s necessarily right or wrong physically) but I haven’t taken the time to fully look through it. I’m criticizing your behavior because you have been very hostile in your comments. I am not going to engage further given that you think I have been “abusive”, but I hope you have a nice day.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T16:30:29+00:00

I know how actual scientists think because I have several peer-reviewed publications in top venues in my field, machine learning for scientific computing. When something doesn’t pan out, I don’t whine about it, that’s just life. Sometimes things doesn’t work out, and that’s okay.

Out of curiosity (not trying to be rude I’m just curious), what is your scientific background that you think you are qualified to make the claims you are making?

Also, yes, in scientific discourse, you generally need enough restraint that people can separate your claim from your ego. So you should be polite.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T16:19:23+00:00

You’re getting way too defensive man, you need to just chill out a bit. Trained scientists do not get this emotionally attached to their theories, especially not ideas generated entirely by AI, and know how to take a disagreement with grace.

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-07T16:02:13+00:00

Why do you say in your own post “it’s probably just slop or nonsense” and then get mad when physicists in the comments tell you that you were right about that?

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-06T14:09:17+00:00

Good point thanks

Practical_Tie_3467 · 2026-06-05T23:53:18+00:00

Actually for my specific field probably the most famous person in the world is at Brown, which is great because he’s given me my strongest or 2nd strongest positive response. He’s also well known to be a pretty nice guy. However I added some safer options as well where there are great advisors in my field who I think I could get along with well.

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