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Nature is not a good scientific journal. The good info will be found in highly specialized journals. The amount of BS in scientific journals is related to prest

by nonbel 11y ago

Nature is not a good scientific journal. The good info will be found in highly specialized journals. The amount of BS in scientific journals is related to prestige like this: x=seq(0,1,by=.01); plot(x,dbeta(x,.5,.5), xlab="Prestige", ylab="BS")

TeMPOraL 11y ago
For those without a R interpreter handy, Emacs to the rescue: ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ / | | | | \ / | | | | \ / | \ / | \ / B | \ / S | \ / | -\ /- | \ / | -\ /- | -\ /- | --\ /-- | --\ /-- | ---\ /--- | -----\ /----- | ----------------- | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Prestige (Also an on-line R interpreter: http://www.r-fiddle.org/. http://www.r-fiddle.org/.)
- sooheon 11y ago
  What package(s) did you use to create this?
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    I used http://r-fiddle.org http://r-fiddle.org to verify what was the intended function, then used built-in Artist Mode (M-x artist-mode) to draw an ellipse for function and square for axes, and finally cut it down in fundamental-mode and added labels. It's basically vanilla Emacs, but I admit to using multiple-cursors.el for some cleanup. It's an excellent addon mode offering a more interactive way to do some things you'd otherwise do via keyboard macros. Check out [0] and [1]. [0] - https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el [1] - http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
    - sooheon 11y ago
      Ah thanks, I was aware of artist-mode, I thought there was some ESS like package that could output ascii graphs of functions :) R-fiddle is new to me though, thanks for that.
      - TeMPOraL 11y ago
        There's also orgtbl-ascii-plot[0], there was a mode for writing out flow diagrams in Emacs that used a web backend to render them (I don't remember the name), and I'm pretty sure you could abuse some graphics-to-ascii or DOT file command line tools to get the required result in Emacs buffer - particularly via org-babel, which lets you invoke external programs to "evaluate" code blocks. I remember using some Java-based local tool to render graphs through org-babel, but again I don't recall the name or URL. [0] - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html
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dang 11y ago
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by nonbel 11y ago

TeMPOraL 11y ago

For those without a R interpreter handy, Emacs to the rescue: ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | \ / | | | | \ / | | | | \ / | \ / | \ / B | \ / S | \ / | -\ /- | \ / | -\ /- | -\ /- | --\ /-- | --\ /-- | ---\ /--- | -----\ /----- | ----------------- | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Prestige (Also an on-line R interpreter: http://www.r-fiddle.org/. http://www.r-fiddle.org/.)

sooheon 11y ago
What package(s) did you use to create this?
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  I used http://r-fiddle.org http://r-fiddle.org to verify what was the intended function, then used built-in Artist Mode (M-x artist-mode) to draw an ellipse for function and square for axes, and finally cut it down in fundamental-mode and added labels. It's basically vanilla Emacs, but I admit to using multiple-cursors.el for some cleanup. It's an excellent addon mode offering a more interactive way to do some things you'd otherwise do via keyboard macros. Check out [0] and [1]. [0] - https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el [1] - http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
  - sooheon 11y ago
    Ah thanks, I was aware of artist-mode, I thought there was some ESS like package that could output ascii graphs of functions :) R-fiddle is new to me though, thanks for that.
    - TeMPOraL 11y ago
      There's also orgtbl-ascii-plot[0], there was a mode for writing out flow diagrams in Emacs that used a web backend to render them (I don't remember the name), and I'm pretty sure you could abuse some graphics-to-ascii or DOT file command line tools to get the required result in Emacs buffer - particularly via org-babel, which lets you invoke external programs to "evaluate" code blocks. I remember using some Java-based local tool to render graphs through org-babel, but again I don't recall the name or URL. [0] - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/orgtbl-ascii-plot.html
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dang 11y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10403159 and marked it off-topic.