I read a Joel Spolksy article about invalidating bad software patents. He mentioned it was very easy. How about invalidating 30 patents in 30 days ... From each of us?
Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
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Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#22When you receive help acheiving your goal from professionals will you state so on your blog or will you, like Dewalt, avoid mentioning that not-quite-flattering fact? Thanks to the HN detectives some weird jumps in proficiency were found in her code...
Why wouldn't I? I think it's more flattering to ask for help than to splat your head against a wall.
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#23And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc. For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also su…
A researcher in my field did this (not 52 weeks unfortunately). He basically made his blog into a giant review article [1]. He was a celebrity at the biophysical society conference last year because of all the students that discovered his blog on Google while looking for papers.
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#24And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc. For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also su…
There could be potential in that idea. Ff it were a few more people and every one covering one specific area with one new paper each week presented, it could make an really interesting grad student brain incubator. I would definitely join in if there were a bit coordination.
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#25And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc. For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also su…
Alex! It's awesome that you've decided to do this and you have my support! I'm replying to you because I want to pitch you something: I'm running a free open platform for simplified summaries of scientific papers: http://www.sciencegist.com
If you decide to contribute these layman's explanations to Science Gist, I can guarantee you will earn yourself at least one user of the day award :P
Award: https://twitter.com/ScienceGist/status/367559501349543936/ph...
On a scientist's desk: https://twitter.com/RobBeagrie/status/367918271095242752/pho...
Good luck!
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#26This is all lame, building websites, reading papers. These activities are good in their own stead but they don't help the world or achive something spectacular. Why do people want such quick returns. I give you 2 decades, win me a Noble prize.
> they don't help the world or achive something spectacular Sure they do. What if I become really good at summarizing papers for laymen? What if I then start a publishing house for good laymen explanations of science? What if this then leads to the abolishment of all those stupid "Caffeine will give you cancer lololol" articles your mum reads? Or maybe I'll just learn a lot and use it as an advantage somewhere else.…
If you do become really good at summarizing papers, you are welcome to join our (shameless plug of a free and open source project) Science Gist (http://www.sciencegist.com) community. It's early days for this project, but I believe it has a huge potential. Also, since you're living in the same city as I am, we should get coffee/tea sometime soon and talk science.
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#27This is all lame, building websites, reading papers. These activities are good in their own stead but they don't help the world or achive something spectacular. Why do people want such quick returns. I give you 2 decades, win me a Noble prize.
How do you expect to do anything spectacular if you don't put in effort to get good at something?
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#28This is a wonderful idea: I particularly like the aspect of reading outside of your primary field. It seems that many breakthroughs come from the rare person who can take a concept from one field and apply it to a seemingly unrelated field of which they also have knowledge through some quirk of fate. But of course, it need not be pure chance ("the book on crop tilling was the only book I had while I was stranded on a desert island"), it can instead be self-enforced. Good luck!
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#29And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc. For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also su…
Alex! It's awesome that you've decided to do this and you have my support! I'm replying to you because I want to pitch you something: I'm running a free open platform for simplified summaries of scientific papers: http://www.sciencegist.com If you decide to contribute these layman's explanations to Science Gist, I can guarantee you will earn yourself at least one user of the day award :P Award: https://twitter.com/Sc…
I think you need a little quality control on the tags. What's with all the "keyboard mash" tags, ie. ArxicwxQlRqh? http://sciencegist.com/tags
Re: Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks
#30You did not get it.
No kapish.