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by acadien 13y ago
Hypothetically; Elsevier closes today. What happens to their mountains of papers? I (and many others) constantly mine their journals for old experimental data. Don't get me wrong I'll be dancing on their grave when they close. I&
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by acadien 13y ago
It would never happen, people would steal/share the data. Remember researchers (specifically in academia) are typically short on cash, and will cut corners whenever possible. The good ones (a majority in my experience) won't cut
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by acadien 13y ago
The argument is that you should be able to regenerate the data from scratch, assuming it is a simulation of some kind. This just requires source code and config files, which are still generally not shared.
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by acadien 13y ago
This is off the top of my head and with no knowledge of the progress of the work done already on the topic... so please take this with a grain of salt! I would be inclined to try to develop a model of the system and see if I could reproduce
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by acadien 13y ago
Super interesting! As a material scientist this is really interesting to me, and I'm surprised I've never seen an article on the topic. I am aware that there is a lot of physics that we don't understand when it comes to mac
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by acadien 13y ago
Currently it seems none of the top level posters have read the article.
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by acadien 13y ago
Also a larger heat exchange.
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by acadien 13y ago
When the lives of astronauts are on the line it seems like a pretty good idea to use proven technologies even if they are expensive. That said, I completely agree that new technologies are needed to make it cheaper to go to space and Space
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by acadien 13y ago
NASA has sent 5 orbiters and 3 impactors in the past decade, but 0 robotic vehicles (I believe a 'rover' is driven by a person). Here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon
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by acadien 13y ago
The US has plenty of money to have a space program, we choose not to have a more active space program.
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by acadien 13y ago
I can't defend PLOS's publication fees, I don't know anything about them. I can say it costs roughly ~$5000 to make a journal article open access in most journals I am familiar with. So $2500 doesn't seem so bad, altho
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by acadien 13y ago
This is really a problem with our government. The NSF is shrinking and is now too small to support the number of physical scientists in the US. If funding were prevalent and actually scaled with the size of academia then people wouldn'
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by acadien 13y ago
This is an impossible system to break when grant distributors completely require that you have recently published in a luxury journal in order to garner funding. The same problem happens with tenure track committees. Most of the scientists
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by acadien 13y ago
So many white men. (just an observation, not commentary)
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by acadien 13y ago
Hooray for anecdotal evidence! I even agree with some of it, but there's sweet fuck all to back up any of it. A highlight for the those of you that couldn't make it through the whole way: "A generation ago, my college peers
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by acadien 13y ago
That sure is fancy, I just mix some ground cinnamon with some sugar and put it back in the cinnamon shaker. And yes it goes remarkably well on buttered toast, also diced apples and pancakes.
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by acadien 13y ago
I voted No twice for each of the two kids I don't have. Maybe you should add a "No No" option for those of us that don't have 2 kids.
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by acadien 13y ago
I can only assume that these companies have subsidiaries that have software patents. They probably own manufacturing patents not to mention patents in the tech and pharmaceutical areas, many of which could be software related.
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by acadien 13y ago
Yes, once you start cutting off long range effects you can improve on the strict O(N^2) limitations.
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by acadien 13y ago
Galaxies would require coupling of the particles, interactions through gravity... this would kill the efficiency of the solver. N-Particle simulations are always O(N^2) (or more).
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by acadien 13y ago
None of the journals I work with will accept any format other than .tex or .doc for submission, its pretty ridiculous. We totally rely on the journals to distribute information but they have no incentive to optimize the process for reprodu
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by acadien 13y ago
It really annoys me when I go to a site and the first thing I'm presented with is "login/create your account". I know nothing about your site, your product, your goals or what the purpose of this account is. Give me a
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by acadien 13y ago
I wish there was a way to do this in PDF. If PDFs weren't these cumbersome static things it could really change how information is spread in the sciences. At least in my field the current mode for disseminating information is nearly 10
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by acadien 13y ago
I love that you can see the edge effects from iFFT(FFT(X)), its always interesting when you can see visual evidence of some underlying math. Anyways, I wonder if you could use a wavelet transform to reduce this.
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by acadien 13y ago
Maybe its because you can't simply trust every citizen to make decisions off of what is obvious and rational. If you actually could trust every individual to make rational decisions and self organize, there would be little need for la
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by acadien 13y ago
I'm guessing they mean AV software for removal of windows viruses on thumb-drives? AV software for linux is 100% unnecessary AFAIK. Maybe a sysadmin could chime in?
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by acadien 13y ago
Stuff like this is why people hate academia. Its research, its not a pissing contest. What are you trying to accomplish here?
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by acadien 13y ago
An equally huge win for this case in particular is that they managed to predict the crystalline structure correctly as well[1]. While predicting superconductivity is a significant and important challenge, crystal structure prediction is an
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by acadien 13y ago
You should submit a more interesting article in response, that's the best way to teach the poster a lesson.
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by acadien 13y ago
Maybe that's true for biological compounds, but for the rest of the periodic table new potentials are constantly being developed (and some may even be improvements). Semiconductors, transition metals, heavy elements, ferromagnetics, y

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