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I only managed to produce one paper in 6 months of research. How do I survive? (sh.itjust.works)

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I am in the field of applied math, and it took me 6 months to produce a paper. And now, I am out of ideas for new papers.

What should I do? How do I even continue? This is sooo difficult..

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well how good is the paper? If you've solved a Millenium problem, you have it made, at least for a while. Heck, Brian Josephson got a Nobel (physics) for a 3 page paper he wrote while a graduate student. So cheer up, anything is possible.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah so it is not bad, but not also great. I expect it to be accepted in a conference, dunno where it would go though. Thanks!