I've seen it happen many times with my graduate students, as a promising paper or research idea slouches into mediocrity, or worse, at the 11th hour.
A substantial amount of effort is required to raise a poorly presented, but promising, paper to international standards.
Here, however, I come to the only problem that, to me, to some extent undercuts the value of this otherwise very interesting and promising paper.
And so the argument continues, with both sides promising new papers that will prove the other side wrong.
Ebbsfleet is promising on paper.
With that as a goal, it's easy to run off the rails: works that seemed promising on paper, or even in rehearsal, can turn out to have been neglected with good cause.
On Thursday, New Jersey's attorney general, John J. Farmer Jr., released guidelines requiring people who receive notification to sign papers promising to keep the information secret.
The calls stem from court documents showing that as a youthful priest 35 years ago, he had two boys sign papers promising not to tell anybody outside of a secret church inquiry — not the police, not their own families, not even by a silent wink, according to the covenant the boys were asked to sign — about their abuse allegations against an Irish priest.
But there's any number of mathematical white papers promising the decentralisation results of Bitcoin without proof-of-work," says David Gerard, author of a book on Bitcoin and blockchain.
Indeed, there has been a recent proliferation of papers promising great flexibility in midcourse correction of sample size and other design features, such as choice of primary endpoint.
