If you ever let reviewers get under your skin, your going to waste a lot of your life with way too much grief. So my approach is mostly to first laugh, then send an email to my collaborators expressing outrage (vent), and then laugh again. Sometimes the reviewers comments are just priceless. For example, a recent review of a paper I was involved in had the following line:
However, the mere fact that the…transform can be applied efficiently is not a surprise – usually this is the case with quantum transforms, if one looks into the representation theory close enough.
Why is this funny? Well when I translate this over to classical algorithms I get the following sentence:
However, the mere fact that the circuit can be applied efficiently is not a surprise – usually this is the case with classical circuits, if one looks into the combinatorics close enough.
Ha! Now that’s funny.
Vicious or noncomprehending reviews are good reasons to go to Amigos.
When I lived in Seattle, reviews like that sent me immediately to the Lusty Lady for some “peer review” of my own.
Ah Amigos. Home of the quantum margarita.
Hey Dave, I do the same thing when reading papers.
Original: “…with a Hamiltonian that couples nearest neighbors on a lattice…”
Hillarious Translation: “…build a Hamiltonian that couples nearest neighbors on a lattice…”
Now, that’s da bomb…. well worthy of a trip to Amigos.
p.s. I no how not to mispelll “hillarious.” I just cant tipe on these littel handheldzeses.