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You think that people's findings should be communicated by email? that their email chains are what should go into the permanent record and be cited and printed
by ajkjk 2mo ago
You think that people's findings should be communicated by email? that their email chains are what should go into the permanent record and be cited and printed out and included in journals and such?
would you include all the quoted text in the reply-alls, or is that too much?
- tomrod 2mo agoThat's how Linux is built. Science has too many threads to do it successfully though
- Charon77 2mo ago> would you include all the quoted text in the reply-alls, or is that too much? Only quote the relevant part and reply to it, just like this very comment. And Linux has a large mailing archive of various lists and threads that are searchable and available to everyone and get this: free access
- ajkjk 2mo agoThe linux developers' mailing lists are not producing anything like scientific papers...
- bdamm 2mo agoKind of arrogant no? Linux kernel development mailing lists are producing something immensely valuable with a much clearer impact on economic indicators than your average scientific paper. Comparing them is hard, but it's patently absurd to say there's nothing being produced compared to scientific papers.
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- ajkjk 2mo agoDunno who you're arguing with, I didn't say they didn't produce anything of value. I said they aren't producing scientific papers. Conversations are not like papers. The scientists have conversations (sometimes on mailing lists!) as well. The analog to scientific papers in the Linux world are... scientific papers. And the occasional essay on the mailing list, which---get this---would be more valuable to humanity if it was subsequently reproduced as a paper with references and explanations and the like. (Notwithstanding the absurdity of academic publishing, of course.)
- tokai 2mo agoHave you never seen a 'personal correspondence' reference?
- evanb 2mo agoYeah but no matter how hard I look I never seem to be able to read anyone else's email. Maybe OpenAI's upcoming models can help me find those references.
- ajkjk 2mo agothe fact that they are sometimes communicated by email doesn't mean that the best way to communicate them is by email. Personal correspondence references are specifically terrible as references since you can't go read them...