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by onhn 8y ago
Slightly disappointed its not called the Raspberry Pi shop.
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by onhn 8y ago
There is a good reason: we should not be passing judgement on the validity of scientific work based on informal discussions.
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by onhn 8y ago
The continuation of the system you mention still exists today, and is the main channel of scientific discourse. I think it is a better channel to use when challenging someone's work. (I don't agree with your statement that it depe
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by onhn 8y ago
It may be just text, but the points being made are technical, and the blog's author is an expert. The author of the paper is now in a position where they feel like they have to defend themselves publicly, and I don't think this is
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by onhn 8y ago
It is fun to read these things, and of course discussion is a good thing, but I do hope that blogs and comment sections do not end up serving any formal role in the scientific literature. There are several reasons for this: a blog's vi
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by onhn 8y ago
thankfully arxiv.org flags articles with overlapping text: https://arxiv.org/help/overlap
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by onhn 8y ago
“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” I think this hits the nail on the head for me: abstract structure first, the choice of language C/C++/Rust/... is t
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by onhn 8y ago
I don't understand the title at all: given that there is an isomorphism, any method of distinguishing an implementation of quaternions from the proposed alternative is necessarily an arbitrary one.
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by onhn 9y ago
From their website: "Our goal is to make papers more open and accessible and to foster discussions around their content." Does anyone have an understanding of the copyright issues involved here? Do they have (or have to have) perm