> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom writes:
Keith> I'm just back from a weekend conference and a few days in the
Keith> San Jose / Palo Alto area, which I had intended to spend doing
Keith> research in the Stanford libraries. Stanford used to have the
Keith> best physics/technical library on the Wes
Off topic, but since information loss is part of the discussion, I
thought I would mention an archive site I stumbled onto a while back. I
don't think it's ever been mentioned on the list. They have manuals for
*many* old computers and peripherals. If you're looking to resurrect
something o
Ahh, good points about academia.edu and goodreads as options. I love that
Hoare book. Spent a bunch of time with it when I was learning the
principles behind Go a few years back.
-Mike
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, benjamin barber
wrote:
> academia.edu
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at
Not to mention, history is so much easier to overwrite or re-name once
everything is in PDF...
Whoops, was that charity actually founded by Nathan Forrest? You meant Martin
Luther King, right?
Then we can go all Brendan Eich over Walter Schottky, too...
- GLL
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From: "Kei
academia.edu
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Mike Cherba wrote:
> Keith,
>I've had good luck with google scholar. Very often there is a free
> version of the paper posted on the author's website. And google Scholar is
> good about ferreting them out. On the rare occasions when I can't tr
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> For now, Oregon Health Sciences University, Washington State, and the
> University of Washington still permit visitors access to their online
> collections, but this is expensive and could disappear. Worse, common-mode
> information system vulnerabiliti
Keith,
I've had good luck with google scholar. Very often there is a free
version of the paper posted on the author's website. And google Scholar is
good about ferreting them out. On the rare occasions when I can't track a
legal free copy of a paper down, I ask a friend who is in academe to o
here here
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Keith Lofstrom
wrote:
> I'm just back from a weekend conference and a few days in the
> San Jose / Palo Alto area, which I had intended to spend doing
> research in the Stanford libraries. Stanford used to have the
> best physics/technical library on t
I'm just back from a weekend conference and a few days in the
San Jose / Palo Alto area, which I had intended to spend doing
research in the Stanford libraries. Stanford used to have the
best physics/technical library on the West Coast.
Perhaps they still do, if you are a student or professor, ha
