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Something (website) to replace my new car's manual with something that's actually useful: teach me about my new car, common probloems, how to maintain it myself, etc...
I'd like to see someone solve the problem of (snail) mail. Its the one thing that is really preventing me from living a digital nomad lifestyle. I still have to visit my office at least once a week just to pick up mail, half of which is often junk and half of which im normally too late for.
Making the publishing of negative data as prestigious and scientifically rigorous as positive data.
This bothered me for a while because I'm not sure what you mean. I can take it three ways. 1. Negative means data that contradicts the popular hypothesis. This is frequently reported very prestigiously, though sometimes care has to be taken depending on just how deeply held the refuted belief is. 2. Negative means data that is highly inconclusive. This data is often non-reported since people continue experiments unti…
and to echo the above comments - arxiv is not prestigious. you wouldn't write a job market paper or pride yourself in terms of 10 publications in arxiv rather than 2 publications in Nature. i havent thought about the 'how', but i am convinced that the prejudice against negative data has to disappear for this whole thing to work.
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Isn't that Arxiv.org?
Do tenure committees and other such parts of the scientific establishment give publication on arxiv.org the same weight they give to publication in traditional scientific journals? They didn't used to -- has this changed?
A better, no hassles international payment gateway (I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
Spreedly? Or maybe that's a layer on top of gateways? I don't know much about payment gateways, so feel free to enlighten me on why it's not a solution to this, if it's not.
A better, no hassles international payment gateway (I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
Safe liposuction. (Going to be a few self-righteous "just eat less and exercise" replies to this one by metabolically advantaged folks who haven't got the slightest clue how difficult it can be to lose weight when your body doesn't want to cooperate.) Alternatively, put some rats on Seth Roberts's set-point diet (aka Shangri-La diet) and figure out the path of action, then develop it in pill form for those of us wher…
If you're going to be putting a lot of R&D into changing people's bodies, why not do it in something cool like regulating myostatin production? Get that one done safely, and we can all be Mr. Olympia.
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This bothered me for a while because I'm not sure what you mean. I can take it three ways. 1. Negative means data that contradicts the popular hypothesis. This is frequently reported very prestigiously, though sometimes care has to be taken depending on just how deeply held the refuted belief is. 2. Negative means data that is highly inconclusive. This data is often non-reported since people continue experiments unti…
Oh, I meant #2, inconclusive results. I believe that this research is extremely valuable. Scientific contribution occurs not just by finding a story and some supporting data - another source of great contribution could be saving time of many researchers by saying "this is exactly what i did. this is why i did it. and look, nothing came up." another researcher can look at it and think about improving the methodology.…
Now the idea of being able to search a scientific question and somehow find a meta-analytical summary of all the inconclusive results ever reported would be flat magical. If the summaries were really useful it'd likely generate a large number of telling results almost automatically.
Of course, a resource like that is almost mythical sounding for today.
So it will notice your love for sci fi but it will notice you like comedy too, but you dont like your comedy mixed with your sci fi. :D Using this info generates a hollywood standard movie