Because I’m in academia and it’s a slow process to get things published in a way that ‘counts’ to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it’s viable etc.
I’m sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren’t even what it’s about at all, they’re just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren’t immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.
You’re right that mathematical proofs are usually published on arXiv and then in journals. But since you mentioned code: sharing code on GitHub is actually very normal in research. Even if it’s just a solver or scripts for experiments, putting it on GitHub helps with reproducibility, gives others a chance to learn from or build on your work, and makes it easy to cite. There’s no obligation to polish it perfectly—lots of research repos are just “as is” snapshots to support a paper.
Now, that is completely understandable. This is also a reason I don’t publish most of my things. They work, they work well, but… Some of it is kind of nasty. However, other developers are going to understand. Just mention this in the read me file. Or better yet, use this as an opportunity to refactor code. An LLM could be very helpful For that process.
If you are not familiar with the process of using git or GitHub, i’m sure many of us, including myself, would be more than happy to help you.
So why haven’t you published the method?
Because I’m in academia and it’s a slow process to get things published in a way that ‘counts’ to the university and scientific community. I often need to implement stuff first to check a few things, whether it’s viable etc.
That’s not how it works. Put it on GitHub like the rest of us and stop making excuses.
I’m sorry to tell you this but people do not, in fact, publish mathematical proofs on GitHub routinely. You publish them on arxive once the paper is done. And then in a journal. The solvers themselves aren’t even what it’s about at all, they’re just to do numerical experiments with to have some examples. They aren’t immediately useful for any applications outside niche research.
You’re right that mathematical proofs are usually published on arXiv and then in journals. But since you mentioned code: sharing code on GitHub is actually very normal in research. Even if it’s just a solver or scripts for experiments, putting it on GitHub helps with reproducibility, gives others a chance to learn from or build on your work, and makes it easy to cite. There’s no obligation to polish it perfectly—lots of research repos are just “as is” snapshots to support a paper.
To be very honest, I’m also a tad embarrassed to share my code. I guess I’ll ask my professor about this.
Now, that is completely understandable. This is also a reason I don’t publish most of my things. They work, they work well, but… Some of it is kind of nasty. However, other developers are going to understand. Just mention this in the read me file. Or better yet, use this as an opportunity to refactor code. An LLM could be very helpful For that process.
If you are not familiar with the process of using git or GitHub, i’m sure many of us, including myself, would be more than happy to help you.
Thanks a lot! I’ll try to figure it out myself first, and might get back to you if the need arises!