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I'm sure that there is a treasure trove of ready to be applied knowledge spread out over many sciences. Example: tue release candidate of the newest version of
by vanderZwan 9y ago
I'm sure that there is a treasure trove of ready to be applied knowledge spread out over many sciences.
Example: tue release candidate of the newest version of GIMP added a "new" type of smart blurring: symmetric nearest neighbor, which is surprisingly effective. I looked it up: it is a super simple algorithm, original paper was from 1987, yet for some reason the only mention of it that I found outside of the GIMP page describing it was a wiki for "subsurface science", so a specialisation within geology I guess.
- kuschku 9y agoIt also has a German wiki article, and has had one for 6 years: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_Nearest_Neighbour https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_Nearest_Neighbour
- vanderZwan 9y agoWhich is still odd:why German but not English?
- kuschku 9y agoThat's not odd. German Wikipedia is one of the largest, it's about even in quality with the English one, and so you'll just s frequently find an article that's only in english as you'll find one that's only in German.
- vanderZwan 9y agoI meant that the paper is originally by English-speaking authors, meaning one would expect it to be more well known in English speaking scientific circles
- pasabagi 9y agoGerman science is mostly done in english - so german scientists are typically very fluent.