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by beevai142 10y ago
I don't think that's really the answer --- e.g. Matlab has all of those (and the open source things are YMMV). The reason I've seen people prefer Mathematica is because its symbolic computation and visualization capabilities
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by beevai142 10y ago
In physics, arXiv is where it's at --- conference proceedings are usually not very relevant, and people usually put also them on arxiv.
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by beevai142 10y ago
> discovery of gravity, evolution, and deoxyribonucleic acid Two of those happened quite a long time ago, when the world and UK's power was quite different, and the scientists and their students in question are long gone.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Richards got fired and got loads of death threats and racist messages, because of a single tweet. The guy got off easier with just being fired.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Other people have power to not hire you, fire you, not offer you opportunities to advance, not invite you to the "old boys club" to network etc. Add to that your caveat, and good luck with that.
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by beevai142 10y ago
Before suggesting that such results are wrong, you'd need to read some of the papers and find something specific to criticize. Otherwise, that's just empty ideologically colored speculation.
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by beevai142 10y ago
If an idea is obvious enough to occur in an armchair biology discussion on HN, it's likely those who do this sort of thing as a profession have considered it already. Indeed, https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=human+s
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by beevai142 10y ago
I've also used it for the past months (latest version at MELPA), and haven't had any problems. Much preferable to the jupyter browser interface, no browser keybindings etc. web page stuff getting in the way.
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by beevai142 10y ago
If you don't advance fast enough on your academic career, it can be read as a failure indicator by grant reviewers, which will reduce your chances to stay employed. If you're too old, and not past an appropriate career stage, you
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by beevai142 10y ago
The difference between professional societies and crowdfunding is that professionals, not the crowd who donate directly, decides which projects to fund. In this sense, I do not see a great qualitative different to government funding agencie
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by beevai142 10y ago
Symmetry can be broken spontaneously (see the first sentence in the paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01485 ), if the symmetric state is not a global energy minimum. (E.g. a needle standing on its tip on a table is in a
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by beevai142 10y ago
Generally speaking, if a paper is published in a bad journal, it often means it was submitted first also to other journals, but rejected by reviewers. Hence, it is more likely there's something wrong with it. Reading papers takes time,
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by beevai142 10y ago
Note that Wu's article is in Scientific Reports, not Nature. SR is far lower in the "prestige rank" of physics journals, and it's far easier to get papers accepted there, so omissions are more likely. On the other hand,
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by beevai142 10y ago
No, it is not typical physics paper (physicist here). Little is clearly defined. E.g. phase shift in what --- if the meaning is the same as in standard EM/QED, what is it the authors exactly propose (probably they don't work in th