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Solution of linear system is one of those problems that you should program yourself to learn the methods. But there are so many edge cases and details that you have to rely on libr…

And don’t die.

Fascinating the contribution of Uruguay to astronomy! E.g. Kuiper Belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_%C3%81ngel_Fern%C3%A1nde...

>There is not much left of communism in China besides the name, After living 2 years in China and visiting the country every year for the last 12 years, I disagree with you. Many n…

Very true! Unfortunately that is not present at all in the Apple series of Foundation…

Beautiful Torres García painting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica_Invertida

I saw this recently on some congress abstracts. I think it is just AI generated content. References look real and don’t exist.

I don’t know what any of these symbols mean… Is it from the article? Didn’t found that…

>You may email the editors concerning typos, factual errors, or with general comments at: apollolunarsurfacejournal@gmail.com Why nasa use gmail?

Live stream of Peregrine Falcon nest at the top of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TMRRsBh5GDI I spend too much time on this...

True. But that opens the game of writing a paper “with the style of” someone known and get accepted. Its a gamble game… for authors and reviewers.

Still many many journals don’t apply double blind reviews. There is no advantage of don’t doing it. There is no extra work in doing it. So I assume that it is not done to keep outs…

I work in academia and have over 70 papers published. I Agree with most ideas in the article. Another dimension not covered is what I called “author engineering”. Many times it is …

This kind of animal glues have some nice properties than “white glue” miss, e.g. you can remove it with heat. Traditional woodworkers still use it. You can buy it today: https://ww…

I second those recommendations and add one: The Craft of Scientific Writing by M. Alley.

It is not clear if there is a evolutionary benefit for human to be conscious. Although here we are…

If weight is a factor (and, of course, if you can afford it) the new iPad Pro is an amazing option. Without a cover is the lightest device I’ve seen.

I’m building a travisher [1]. Both wooden body and iron. I found it amazing the importance of the small details in old woodworking tools and how toolmakers solve problems and impro…

Back in the nineties… I set the country of my ICQ account randomly. It was Vanuatu. One day someone contacts me and ask “are you from Vanuatu?”, so I checked and she was from Vanua…

Please read "Story of your life" by Ted Chiang. A beautiful story that involves a discussion of Newtonian and Hamiltonian formulations. One of the best stories I have read.

I completely agree with you. We can mess it up, but at geological time scale, life will regenerate. Evolution is very robust. Although, we live at human timescale. It will be a pit…

Is this for free account? Or also for paid corporate accounts?

Well, you could put incentives to make replication attractive. Give credit for replication. Give money to the researchers doing the replication/review. Today we pay an average of 2…

>It's fundamentally impossible because when you publish the topics are going to be in a way or another niche enough that you know all of the people working on those topics Even if …