WEEK 36 · GATE 36: JOURNAL + JOSS

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Preprints are like a published speech; journals are like the speech after the fact-checkers read it. Some doors (grant panels, pharma QA departments, certain hiring committees) still open only for peer-reviewed work. This week you send Paper 1 to a data journal, Paper 2 to a process-engineering or bioengineering journal, and batchlens to JOSS, where reviewers literally open GitHub issues on your repo. Choosing a jou…

If you only do one thing this week: the JOSS submission (fastest review, most useful for instruments)

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Lewis et al. (2020), "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks"

Lewis et al. (2020), "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks", NeurIPS, abstract + figure 1 (15 min)

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By Sunday you should be able to say: “My work is in peer review at three venues, and I know what each reviewer will look for.”

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2026-09-28 22:11 Finished: Crash Course Biology #3 · "Biological Molecules
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