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by btrettel 6y ago
> When we published in a paywalled journal, we had the option of paying an APC [0] to make the particular article open access. So in that sense, we were not 'required' to relinquish copyright. It was just costly to retain it. I
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Generally, I don't like when people reply with only links to someone else unless that person specifically requested a link or links. What the second poster intends to communicate through this is not always clear in my experience. I ass
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> Also, why is everyone measuring helium in volume (litres, cubic feet)? This is highly dependent on temperature and pressure. Why not state quantities in terms of mass? This problem appears way more often than I'd like. In measurin
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The examples on the Signal website give you hair color, hair style, likely race, and the shape of the top of the protesters' ears. While it's not definitive, given that a fuller redaction is easy and has no disadvantages, I don&#x
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> If the top scientists from well-funded teams came up with estimates that were so wildly off, I'm not sure why we have any hope of getting these things right. A "top" scientist produces a ton of publications and brings in
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Not just any black spot either. A black spot of random size larger than what you want to redact. That way you avoid leaking the size of what's being redacted. The size of what's being redacted can sometimes provide enough inform
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Looks like you can download it here now: http://300m.us/docs/computing/
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As others have noted, the software is available at the Library of Congress. It's marked as "by appointment" in their catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/95790208 I go to the Library of Congress every once in a whil
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What's the closest to a digital equivalent of the Olympus XA, i.e., a compact rangefinger, maybe with the same sort of clamshell design?
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On reflection, option 1 includes like Taleb's philosophy. At first I wrote it off as leading to arguments like "no one knows so let's do what I, an 'expert' say", which I hate. But it's written generically
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This article meanders too much. The basic point is this: > While stochastic models present us with numerous difficulties, an even more perplexing conundrum faces contemporary scientists and engineers who wish to model highly complex syst
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> If a research scientist doesn't know how their work is going to turn out, they're probably on the right track. If an engineer doesn't know how their work is going to turn out, they're probably on the wrong track. Yo
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Well, the following seems fairly harsh to me, and I would recommend rephrasing it: > IMO few categories of professions have a harder time understanding cutting-edge science than engineers. That is because they think they know science bec
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You claim that engineers apply known science, and consequently have a hard time understanding and doing quality science themselves. This is a common view in some groups, but it isn't true in my experience. Fact is that engineers receiv
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This page make me want to write some narratives about my own papers. Maybe I wouldn't release the narratives, but Lamport's page made me realize how much detail is lost to time. The context of the papers is interesting and maybe e
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Something like that would make a lot of sense to me. Today, I think quantum physics isn't such a bad field for scientists to work in, but only because of quantum computing. On the other hand, I can't see any compelling reason to w
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Thanks for your comment. I don't seem to appreciate the philosophical aspects as much as others.
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I'll agree with you that culture is a major factor and that in a plausible alternative history Kolmogorov and others who worked on fluids would be better known. However, I disagree on the point that people see the impacts of modern phy
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I suppose I disagree about what is "fundamental". On some level I can see how HEP and quantum mechanics are "fundamental" in that they describe the "building blocks" of the universe. But these branches of physi
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Not about the article per se: Why do particle/high-energy and quantum physics get so much media attention compared against other branches of physics? HEP and quantum physics are fairly uninteresting to me but I'm wondering about
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Thanks for the links. I would consider the science issue you mention to be related. A lot of what was covered in the "verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification" course I took was basic science. The class wasn't
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I think not making the 4th year primarily projects would help. In my mechanical engineering BS my 4th year was a combination of projects and electives (ignoring the senior design class). At the very least a class on software testing should
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This is missing a course on software testing, particularly one that has a focus on testing software-implemented models. I'm almost done a PhD in mechanical engineering. Some CS folks have lamented gaps in my programming-related educati
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Some of the comments here discuss how an attacker could tamper with data. What are some good ways for a scientist to ensure the integrity of their data in this case? Post it online with a hash, particularly in a way that will get archived b
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> From what I have read, elite colleges are a place where personal connections are made. Co-founders are often people you met at college and bonded with at college. I took a business law class (intellectual property law) during my (nearl
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From what I've read the vast majority of Einstein's work was not peer reviewed. http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-... > How many of Einstein’s 300 plus papers were peer reviewed?
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Of the US government science databases that I've seen, OSTI seems to have the best interface: https://www.osti.gov/ Good search, no JS required, loads fast, and looks modern for those who care. You can even export the
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Amazon definitely doesn't do this now. Amazon sometimes offers me a free Prime trial and they make it fairly clear that if you don't cancel before the conclusion of the trial, they'll automatically subscribe you to Prime and
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Sorry, this post was unclear: I can recall who has a user-specified avatar and roughly what that looks like, but for those who don't have a user-specified avatar, I don't have any recollection of what the automatically generated a
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I've never found those memorable. On the GitHub project I've contributed most to I can vaguely recall who has and does not have a user-specified avatar and what that looks like, but I can not recall any details of the auto-generat

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