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The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.
by tzahola 8y ago
The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.
- greggarious 8y ago>The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel. The blog post serves that function.
- stormbeard 8y agoI think the invitation is extended by sharing the blog post.
- ythn 8y agoCome on, does every cool thing need a stamp of approval by "experts" before publication? "SQLite looks nice, but I would have double checked with Oracle engineers before announcing this as something novel"
- tzahola 8y agoWell, to some extent, yes. Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever.
- codegladiator 8y agoWhat's the harm in that ?
- wuliwong 8y agoSo mathematicians should be reviewing papers in the Journal of Diabetes? I think that the Journal of Diabetes should just stay in its lane.
- tathougies 8y ago> Otherwise you’d end up like the MD who’ve “rediscovered” numerical integration (the trapezoid method) and got it published in the journal of diabetes or whatever. This was shocking because calculus is a required subject in American high schools, and this American doctor presumably went to American high school, not because the doctor didn't check in with mathematicians. Frankly, it would be equally shocking if the doctor had asked a mathematician if integration were a thing, because presumably a doctor is an educated member of society.
- jadedhacker 8y agoNonetheless, even though it's highly embarrassing to the parties involved, with a little bit of self-deprecating humor if I was the doctor, I could tell people at parties that I, along with Newton and Leibnitz have been published on a foundational numerical integration method. ^_^
- tathougies 8y agoha!
- lu5t 8y agoCalculus is not a requirement to graduate high school in America. Algebra, sure.
- tathougies 8y agoIt’s surely a general education requirement in most colleges.
- Analemma_ 8y agoIt's a blog post, not a peer-reviewed paper. And the tone certainly sounds to me like an invitation to mathematicians "Hey, we're amateurs who found this cool thing, can you tell us more about it?"
- cabaalis 8y agoI understand what you mean, but how many great breakthroughs in history were where someone shared the foundation of an idea and then another formalized it?
- planteen 8y agoI think it happens fairly often. In the more mathematical realm in information theory, turbo codes came out of nowhere by people who were not experts in the field of FEC. Their efficiency far surpassed other methods of the time, to the point that their results in the conference paper were doubted. They didn't have any understanding at the time of why they worked well, they just published results. Lots of physical phenomena start as simple observations that are later worked into theoretical frameworks. The photoelectric effect comes to mind.
- 8bitsrule 8y ago"The initial goal of John Conway was to define an interesting and unpredictable cell automaton.... "While the definitions before Conway's LIFE were proof-oriented, Conway's construction simply aimed at simplicity without a priori aiming at the proof of automaton being alive." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life