Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Post by saraid216 » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

stared wrote: post #34

songgao wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The other thing is that, IMHO, private repo for this is not good for academic, instead, make it temporarily private. People write papers to get published. They surely want as many people as possible to see it. The reason they want it to be private is to hide it from others before getting published so the ideas won't get stolen. So I'm thinking maybe set up a time limit for repos being private would be better? After t…

It is one reason. But e.g. in my field (theoretical physics) I am not afraid of theft (well, if someone is smart enough to understand and polish a half-written paper, then (s)he can write much better stuff) but of things that "as of now makes sense only to me" or "there are half-written" (e.g. in some places I changed indices i to i+1, but not in all, making it both frustrating and useless to read) or may simply be f…

Post by stared » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

saraid216 wrote: post #51

stared wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is one reason. But e.g. in my field (theoretical physics) I am not afraid of theft (well, if someone is smart enough to understand and polish a half-written paper, then (s)he can write much better stuff) but of things that "as of now makes sense only to me" or "there are half-written" (e.g. in some places I changed indices i to i+1, but not in all, making it both frustrating and useless to read) or may simply be f…

Why a time limit? Why not a "publish" button that flips it to public? (And maybe submits it to arXiv at the same time, optionally.)

Post by twog » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 6:26 PM UTC

up_and_up wrote: post #54

Clicking on either screenshot in the blog post takes me to a new page with a smaller version of the screenshot ( http://blog.banyan.co/banyan-is-now-in-public-beta/dashboard... ). Then I have to click the image again to see: http://blog.banyan.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Dashboard-B... Wouldnt a better interaction be to display a larger screenshot on the first click? Thats what I would expect?

Post by beambot » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 7:18 PM UTC

cing wrote: post #45

Great to see another product in this space ( https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.

Post by moyix » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC