This is right! They (publishers) can't continue this path without the clients, provided so conveniently by academic administration.
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Not part of my current project, but it responds to a demand I had for years. My contribution was to use the script with examples, old and new. Is so nice and interactive that now I wish for a game.
... I notice now that it uses the gas mechanism from Ethereum. Less interesting than I thought.
"there’s even an open archive maintained by Cornell University where authors of papers in physics, chemistry, and other disciplines can directly submit their LaTeX manuscripts for open viewing."
for two reasons:
1) sounds like 'there's even a church at Vatican' seen that arXiv.org is the biggest ever collection of scientific articles submitted by their authors
2) and there's no chemistry section in arXiv.org, but a half is mathematics and some computer science
See [1] the Tits alternative which implies that if your group is linear (huh) then the growth function is either polynomial or exponential. Then there is a result by Gromov [2] which says that if the growth is polynomial then the group is virtually nilpotent. There was a long standing question if there exist finitely generated groups with an intermediate growth and the first example was found [3].
So it's not interesting until it becomes interesting due to a newly discovered fact.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_alternative
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromov%27s_theorem_on_groups_o...
Seriously now, partial reason probably is that life quality does not correlate with intelligence in the West. Maybe here there are some people reading this, who could confirm or disagree with the following. Coming from the East, one of my first persistent impressions was puzzlement when faced with barely human intelligence in a rather wealthy aspect.
A conjecture, which I don't know if it holds water, is that analoguous to CA, Wolfram style, perhaps 1/3 (or anyway a significant proportion) of the 10^13 possible graph rewrite systems, alternative to IC, are Turing universal.
There's one more correspondence between East India Company and Google, found by 4lhc.
[1] https://gist.github.com/4lhc/c695e70e59a177fd3278c0818ff2084...
The literary authority claims that the poem is about the poetic art, while a mathematician would think it is about a Fourier transform (noncommutative, see the "groups of water", SL(2)?).
Here is the translation of the poem Ion Barbu, Din ceas dedus:
From the clock, down the depth of this calm peak,
Passed through the mirror into blessed azure,
Tailoring on the crushing of the aggressive herds
In groups of water a second, purer game.
Latent nadir! The poet raises the sum
Of spreading harps lost into reversed flight.
The song exhausts: as deep as the sea bears
Its jellies, from under the green bells.
t_internet - t_arpanet = 2^p
t_history - t_gutenberg = 5^p
where t_internet is in the range [t_arpanet, 210] (in decades) and t_history is in the range [t_gutenberg, t_arpanet] (in decades).
Therefore, if a historic event related to the printing press occured at t_history time (in decades) then the equivalent event related to the net occured at t_internet (in decades), given by te formula:
t_internet = t_arpanet + (t_history - t_gutenberg)^0,43067
where 0,43067 = (ln 2)/(ln 5).
- 1450 Gutenberg - 1970 Arpanet
- 1500 Luther - 1990 Berners-Lee
- 1700 Leibniz - 2010 Open Access, Open Science
- 1800 USA - x, major event towards the freedom of the internet
If we count in decades, suppose both processes as exponential and we take Gutenberg - Arpanet as the 0 point, then we see
2^t_internet = 5^t_gutenberg
which suggests that the major event x would be at about 4.6 decades after the Arpanet. :)
Overall is the Gutenberg press reloaded. First publish bibles in the local languages, then publish anything, like for example Leibniz, outside the usual channels (academia say), then limit the spreading of knowledge via laws and trade over boundaries. Much faster than before, but not so fast so that one individual, say, would witness both the Gutenberg press and a major effect like the USA.
Compulsory education. Started like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system#Driv...
- it was previously available on Google Scholar
- it cannot be retrieved, or the search on Google Scholar gives a misleading result (for example it gives another article, as explained in [1])
Please help to make a list of scholar dropouts! Thank you.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604722 HN comment with evidence
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604955 HN reply with another evidence