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Come 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 engine
by ythn 8y ago
Come 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.