Awesome. I'd love to see one of these guys pull through. I'm in one of my heavy research phases right now and there's always this cat-and-mouse information tr

Awesome. I'd love to see one of these guys pull through. I'm in one of my heavy research phases right now and there's always this cat-and-mouse information tracking problem of trying to trace an idea back to its source and track its derivations through the clunky interfaces that online journals use now. (Especially, say, if you're not members of all or any of them.) Similarly, I asked exactly the question The Economist nails of a friend of mine in academia last week (who does a lot of peer review) -- how do ideas spread at a reasonable pace through academic circles given that it often takes a year or more for a paper to be published? The answer was, "Everybody knows everybody. They talk." Which naturally is frustrating looking from the outside in and working on theoretically intensive problems from a non-academic setting.