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Phygg: digg for physicists
- jessriedel 16y agoAs a physics grad student, I'd love an aggregation site (like Digg, Reddit, or HN) which had the quality of discussion of HN but with a focus on academics instead of IT and startups. I'd love this to reach a critical mass, but I doubt it.
- _corbett 16y agoyea--I thought about this myself and that's always the rub with efforts like this. but in this case it only has to reach a critical mass within a research group (yours) for it to be useful (http://www.phygg.com/phygg/groups.php http://www.phygg.com/phygg/groups.php).
- cstuder 16y agoUmm, that's a little bit an unfortunate name if they ever want to expand into the german speaking part of the web. (It's 'f*ck' in german.)
- apl 16y agoWell, it's more like "fück". Still, unfortunate.
- _corbett 16y ago"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoWie ist fick gleich phygg??
- hugh3 16y agoIt's never really been a problem for fark.com
- Maro 16y agoVote for the Physics Stack Exchange proposal at: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1908/physics http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1908/physics
- clistctrl 16y agothose two g's are risky business.
- sscheper 16y agolol
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/physics http://www.reddit.com/r/physics ?
- _corbett 16y agoso "digg for physicists" is simplistic, in reality "Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org" I'm a theoretical physicist- http://reddit.com/r/physics http://reddit.com/r/physics Hey physics people, check out this shirt I made! 140 votes vs. http://phygg.com http://phygg.com Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sersic model 5 votes the latter is more useful for people actually doing research.
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoInsightful. Point taken.
- jakerocheleau 16y agoIt looks like just another generic Pligg website using the standard template "wistie" source: http://www.pligg.com/ http://www.pligg.com/
- _corbett 16y agoyep (you can see link to pligg.com at bottom of phygg.com)... two research groups are starting to use it, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UZH and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, so it's more for HNers who are interested in (astro)physics at the research level to check out/use. we're adding interesting papers (cutting edge, fresh off arXiv.org) daily.
- CountHackulus 16y agoCan't you just do this in Digg v4 by following people who share physics stories? I don't really understand what the point of this is.
- _corbett 16y agoso "digg for physicists" is simplistic, in reality "Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org"
- dinedal 16y agoFirst, approximate Digg as a sphere...
- kasharoo 16y agoShould've called it PhyggNewton.