On October 28, 2016 7:28:22 PM PDT, Owen Densmore wrote:
>Sorry to be pedestrian, but how about the OP's desire to convert
>thread(s)
>into posts/correspondence?
But that was my point in mentioning a tree threaded mail reader, especially an
open source one. It should be a matter of straightfor
With some regularity it seems, conversations around the Friday morning
table turn to the question, "How do we see, know and explain a variety of
things?". Here is a topic and tool which, I think, has yet to be served up
for consideration.
https://3dprint.com/153898/3d-printed-cmb-universe/
TJ
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Marcus,
I have great sympathy for the notion that there is too much writing and too
much publication [and too little reading.] I have often wondered how the
academic world would be transformed if each of us were issued with our PhD one
hundred blank pages with the understanding that that’s
I am of two minds on this (Marcus' point about too much thin,
incremental, even vapid publication)
I can't possibly keep up with the publications that might be of direct
relevance to my work, much less within my scope of interest and am
sometimes frustrated with the sheer volume and the noise
I'm pretty sure the best a program could do is clean up and sequence the
conversation. There is definitely a man-in-the-middle .. this software
would augment your task but not complete it.
-- Owen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Nick Thompson
wrote:
> Hi, Owen, and all,
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> You have me
Nick,
Personally, I think there are too many meetings and proceedings of same.
There are too many thin papers where it obviously isn't possible to reproduce
the result without a lot more context, and where the authors assume already
having a lot of knowledge most readers won't have (even wit
