--- Log opened Mon May 27 00:00:38 2013 00:05 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:15 -!- yoleaux [~yoleaux@obquire.infologie.co] has joined ##hplusroadmap 00:17 < superkuh> paperbot: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11207-013-0257-0 00:17 < paperbot> error: HTTP 500 http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/deb9cce47cfeacee9cc9815ca03fc8fd.txt 00:18 < superkuh> paperbot: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11207-013-0257-0.pdf 00:18 < paperbot> no translator available, raw dump: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/9ce0fab3b69c944b8f3b9ce5309630f.txt 00:26 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-66-27-118-94.san.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 01:08 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 01:21 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 01:29 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 01:53 -!- xablor [~chris@74.83.3.21] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:08 -!- makoLime [~mako@103-9-42-128.flip.co.nz] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 03:15 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has joined ##hplusroadmap 03:20 < a3nm> paperbot: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6337111 03:20 < paperbot> http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/2963801b326ce6b0e40f7b9a3eaa309a.txt 03:20 < a3nm> paperbot: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSC.2012.63 03:21 < paperbot> no translator available, raw dump: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/533f464eb21beb97fb5ba4c85230073f.txt 04:08 -!- ParahSail1n [~parahsail@99-25-200-252.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 04:49 -!- FooQuuxman [~test@c-98-215-254-55.hsd1.il.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 04:49 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-11-52-184.atclnj.east.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:01 -!- Viper168_ [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:03 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:04 -!- Charlie [~quassel@74.63.212.44] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 05:04 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 05:09 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-11-52-184.atclnj.east.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 05:09 -!- Urchin [~urchin@unaffiliated/urchin] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 05:48 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 05:58 -!- Charlie [~quassel@74.63.212.44] has joined ##hplusroadmap 05:59 -!- biostudent [~chatzilla@105.149.1.161] has joined ##hplusroadmap 06:25 -!- biostudent [~chatzilla@105.149.1.161] has quit [Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.90 [Firefox 21.0/20130511120803]] 06:25 < archels> http://www.kokes.net/projectlonghaul/projectlonghaul.htm 06:57 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 06:57 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:00 -!- kajetan [203@unaffiliated/kmo] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds] 07:01 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has quit [Ping timeout: 241 seconds] 07:12 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds] 07:15 -!- kajetan [~kmo@apn-37-247-252-163.dynamic.lte.plus.pl] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:28 -!- augur [~augur@129-2-129-34.wireless.umd.edu] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:41 -!- augur [~augur@129-2-129-34.wireless.umd.edu] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 07:48 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-66-27-118-94.san.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 07:54 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:10 -!- kajetan [~kmo@apn-37-247-252-163.dynamic.lte.plus.pl] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 08:25 -!- kajetan [203@d30-138.icpnet.pl] has joined ##hplusroadmap 08:43 < archels> paperbot: http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/pdf/10.1201/b14859-9 08:44 < paperbot> no translator available, raw dump: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/48cdc46b1a935de62f72b95bb02ebdd7.txt 09:05 -!- kmo [~kmo@apn-37-247-252-163.dynamic.lte.plus.pl] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:05 -!- kmo [~kmo@apn-37-247-252-163.dynamic.lte.plus.pl] has quit [Changing host] 09:05 -!- kmo [~kmo@unaffiliated/kmo] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:09 -!- kajetan [203@d30-138.icpnet.pl] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 09:25 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:29 < xablor> ...um. Huh. 09:29 < xablor> 'lo everyone. 09:32 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-66-27-118-94.san.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 09:34 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:34 -!- augur [~augur@129-2-129-34.wireless.umd.edu] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:34 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has quit [Client Quit] 09:35 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@99-25-200-252.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:35 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@99-25-200-252.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Changing host] 09:35 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:35 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-11-52-184.atclnj.east.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:39 -!- wizrobe [~userdi@c-76-23-254-105.hsd1.ct.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 09:51 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-11-52-184.atclnj.east.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 10:00 < kanzure> xablor: yes? 10:00 < xablor> Forgot I'd automated rejoining the room when my client reconnects. 10:01 < xablor> Thought I'd at least be social about it. ;) 10:08 < kanzure> time for my daily dosage of lee.. http://phys.org/news/2013-05-lee-smolin-universe-video.html 10:09 < kanzure> (i don't know why i bother, it's not like i'm going to actually read his loop quantum gravity papers today.) 10:12 < xablor> ...I think I actually had all the cluefulness of my existing clues diminished by that phrase. o.o 10:13 -!- ParahSail1n [~parahsail@99-25-200-252.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:13 -!- ParahSail1n [~parahsail@99-25-200-252.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Changing host] 10:13 -!- ParahSail1n [~parahsail@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:16 < xablor> So I am pondering. 10:17 -!- ParahSailin_ [~ropoctl@unaffiliated/parahsailin] has quit [Quit: ParahSailin_] 10:17 < xablor> If I'm working on getting a piece of software up and running that might turn into a startup, but am currently working solo, how much of these dev practices do I need? 10:17 < xablor> Continuous integration, frex, appears to be purely useful to teams. 10:18 < xablor> Automated testing appears to be useful to all situations, as does source control. 10:19 < kanzure> continuous integration is useful because you are lazy 10:19 < kanzure> and it also forces you to make your environments more repeatable 10:20 < brownies> frex? 10:21 < brownies> anyway, you just want to automate things... and automation is arguably more important if you don't have manpower to throw at problems repeatedly 10:21 < xablor> This is an excellent point raht heah. 10:23 < xablor> Re: automation, I mean. 10:32 -!- yorick [~yorick@oftn/member/yorick] has joined ##hplusroadmap 10:37 < xablor> Huh. Cute idea. 10:37 < xablor> Make a soundscape to represent your project status. 10:37 < kanzure> it would always end up being the emperor's theme. 10:37 < kanzure> death and gloom. 10:38 < xablor> Crickets for network traffic, birds for email, etc. 10:38 < xablor> Sounds distracting as hell to me, but I admit it's a /cute/ idea. 10:56 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:10 -!- phillyj [~chatzilla@pool-108-36-7-171.phlapa.east.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:11 < kanzure> phillyj: hi. 11:17 < phillyj> kanzure: are you running a script welcoming new log ins? 11:18 < kanzure> no 11:18 < kanzure> i am just being friendly 11:18 < kanzure> also it's because i know your joins are deliberate, because you don't hang around often. 11:18 < kanzure> and i sort of want you to hang around more often 11:19 < phillyj> just watching; i'm on #ubuntu so I thought I would auto-join h+ to see what's goin on 11:20 < phillyj> kanzure: are you still director of the h+ foundation or something like that? 11:21 < kanzure> no, i'm no longer associated with them. 11:24 < phillyj> i think you said you were making smartphone apps last time; still doing that stuff? 11:24 < kanzure> uh, sort of. i have many projects. yes, one of them currently involves a mobile app, i suppose. 11:25 < kanzure> why do you ask? 11:25 < phillyj> just wondering what you're up to 11:25 < phillyj> any diybio related projects? 11:26 < kanzure> here are some relevant things i have been up to: https://github.com/kanzure?tab=repositories 11:26 < kanzure> i guess nmz787 bugs me often about dna synthesis, does that count? 11:27 < phillyj> ah, yes, you did do alot of work on the pdfparanoia stuff 11:31 < phillyj> kanzure: so what brings in the dough? contract work? freelance programming? 11:31 < kanzure> yep, lots of contracting. i never do freelancing because people pay freelancers less. 11:32 < kanzure> (it's something about the word itself) 11:33 < phillyj> cool; my friend and I have been thinking about doing work related to "big data" 11:33 < kanzure> sounds vague. 11:33 < phillyj> if we ever get anywhere... 11:33 < kanzure> you should consider not using buzzwords like that. 11:33 < phillyj> vauge on purpose 11:33 < kanzure> maybe for marketing. but practically speaking, just learn your tools and know your math. pig, hive, riak, other mapreduce things, etc. 11:34 < phillyj> what are those acronyms? 11:34 < kanzure> they are not acronyms. they are tools. 11:35 < phillyj> hmm 11:35 < phillyj> ok, well, we haven't really come up with anything yet 11:35 < kanzure> these are tools you would be using for "big data" reasons. 11:35 < phillyj> he might be familiar with them since he's the data scientist 11:36 < xablor> I'm the epitome of nublet, here, but oughtn't you be finding a problem to solve and then deciding how best to go about solving it? 11:36 < xablor> And then profiting if other people want it solved for them as well? 11:36 < phillyj> my goal is to figure out how to make data meaningful 11:36 < kanzure> xablor: nope. in consulting land, often you find a client and then propose a solution. 11:36 < kanzure> xablor: but the reality is that most "big data" tasks are going to center around some common motifs that tools will solve. 11:36 < xablor> Okay, fair. Not my gig, so thanks. 11:37 < kanzure> phillyj: that's really vague. 11:37 < phillyj> kanzure: yea, I'm trying to narrow it but I not really sure what the people want 11:38 < phillyj> or as Jobs would say "the people don't know what they want" so I have to make something 11:39 < kanzure> don't think of your clients as stupid. that's a disaster waiting to happen. 11:39 < phillyj> lol 11:39 < phillyj> its really hard thinking up business ideas 11:39 < kanzure> i have a pile of ideas that i don't have time to work on 11:40 < kanzure> i would be really happy if you would take one so that i don't have to be anxious about it not existing 11:40 < phillyj> you got a github of those ideas? 11:40 < kanzure> no, it's not in a git repository and it's not on github. 11:41 < phillyj> you know, there should be a place where people post "ideas" for other people to develop 11:41 < kanzure> halfbakery 11:41 < xablor> The halfbaker - damn. 11:42 < kanzure> xablor: you will not win against me on typing speed, http://www.seanwrona.com/typeracer/profile.php?username=kanzure 11:42 < xablor> Congrats? 11:42 < kanzure> overkill i guess. but don't feel bad. 11:43 < phillyj> wow; another way to waste my time 11:43 < phillyj> let me check out this racing 11:44 < xablor> Honestly my WPM's never been the same since I forced myself to retrain on dvorak. 11:44 < xablor> I mean it wasn't stellar before, but. 11:44 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@71-217-116-197.tukw.qwest.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:44 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@71-217-116-197.tukw.qwest.net] has quit [Changing host] 11:44 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@unaffiliated/anastasiawyatt] has joined ##hplusroadmap 11:45 < kanzure> dvorak isn't going to significantly help. plover might, but i'm not convinced. 11:45 < xablor> Yeah, I read the right docs there about 2/3 through the learning curve. 11:45 < xablor> At this point it's mostly just wanting to avoid re-re-training. 11:45 < xablor> And/or stubborness. 11:46 < xablor> Oh, hey, I'd wanted to do this. Good to see I'm not alone. 11:47 < kanzure> wanted to do what? 11:47 < xablor> Steno typing on a standard PC keyboard. 11:59 < xablor> Though I'm not sure it's a viable approach or even useful for software dev, but eh. 12:00 < xablor> ...further thinking says that code completion gets you 90% of the way there anyway. 12:01 < kanzure> one of the steno developers did a video demonstrating his use of plover while writing source code. 12:02 < xablor> Oh, cool, I'll have to put that in the queue. 12:02 < kanzure> *one of the plover developers 12:03 < xablor> And on the other other hand it seems like your programming being constrained by your typing speed is an indication of something probably being awry. 12:07 < kanzure> nobody said it was the only constraint 12:08 < xablor> Mm. True. I guess it's not minimizing a bottleneck in a pipeline so much as minimizing overhead in the programmer's OODA loop? 12:09 < kanzure> what 12:09 < xablor> Stuff. 12:11 < kanzure> what? 12:56 < strangewarp> Object Oriented Data Anger, I think 12:57 < ParahSail1n> observe o decide act 12:57 < ParahSail1n> orient 12:58 < strangewarp> meh mine's more accurate 13:06 -!- Viper168_ [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 13:18 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 13:23 -!- lichen_ [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:25 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 13:26 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 13:27 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 13:34 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 13:44 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@unaffiliated/anastasiawyatt] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 14:17 -!- phillyj [~chatzilla@pool-108-36-7-171.phlapa.east.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: ChatZilla 0.9.88.2 [Firefox 20.0.1/20130409194949]] 14:22 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-35-189-82.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:26 -!- FooQuuxman [~test@c-98-215-254-55.hsd1.il.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 14:26 -!- FooQuuxman [~test@c-98-215-254-55.hsd1.il.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 14:31 -!- FooQuuxman [~test@c-98-215-254-55.hsd1.il.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 14:32 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-35-189-82.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. 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ZZZzzz…] 15:54 -!- yorick [~yorick@oftn/member/yorick] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 16:03 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-35-189-82.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:12 < kanzure> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/elsevier-journals-has-anything-changed/ 16:13 < kanzure> "I am writing to inform you of my resignation from the editorial board of the Journal of Number Theory, effective immediately. I will also be adding my name publicly to the list of people who refrain from volunteering for, or submitting manscripts to, Elsevier journals." 16:14 -!- ThomasEgi [~thomas@panda3d/ThomasEgi] has quit [Quit: ...unyaaa ~~~] 16:14 < kanzure> "More recently, we were told of Elsevier’s new policy that editors would receive $60 for every article they process for the Journal of Number Theory. To me, this policy demonstrates a true inability (or unwillingness) to understand the key part of our observation that “all the work is done for free by volunteers, but access to that work is exorbitantly expensive”. We want access to be less expensive; we’re not looking for extra dough ... 16:14 < kanzure> ... in our pockets. The most generous interpretation of this new policy’s effect is that it continues to take money away from the research community at large, but now puts some of it in the personal pockets of a small subset of mathematicians who don’t need it. (My personal reaction, to be honest, was to view this as too close to bribery not to be somewhat insulting.) But this policy uncontroversially shows, at least, the extent of ... 16:14 < kanzure> ... Elsevier’s robust profits on its research journals." 16:15 < kanzure> "Does this mean that I can submit scores of crank papers (or, if you like, papers that do not prove anything interesting/new) under a pseudonym to an editor, with whom I have an agreement to split the proceeds? Are they going to roll this system out to other journals? Sounds like the sort of system that led to Chaos, Solitons and Fractals having a massive impact factor to me." 16:15 < brownies> eh? isn't a high impact factor good? 16:15 < brownies> although it sounds Elsevier should have read some articles from a behavioral econ journal before enacting that policy 16:15 < kanzure> that journal is notorious for being bogus 16:15 < brownies> oh i see. 16:16 < kanzure> there was a scandal that became well known 16:16 < kanzure> so ideally such a journal would *not* have a high Impact Factor (tm) 16:16 < brownies> right 16:16 < kanzure> i believe Impact Factor is owned by ISI or something 16:16 < brownies> then why does it? 16:16 < brownies> oh, heh, really? 16:16 < kanzure> uh.. or thomason.. or thomas.. or.. erm.. damn it. 16:16 < brownies> i thought it was just a straightforward metric that anyone could compute 16:16 < kanzure> no 16:16 < brownies> that's fucked up 16:17 < kanzure> theoretically you can calculate impact factor on your own.. if you had contracts with all the publishers to give you data. 16:17 < kanzure> "The impact factor is used to compare different journals within a certain field. The ISI Web of Knowledge indexes more than 11,000 science and social science journals.[3]" 16:17 < brownies> there ought to be some straightforward measurement of, you know, impact based on how often the article/journal is cited... perhaps time-weighted... and imo this ought to be trivial to do by hitting google scholar? 16:17 < kanzure> nope, google scholar doesn't actually give you that data. 16:17 < kanzure> google search result counts are faked, remember? 16:17 < brownies> wtf?? 16:18 -!- ElixirVitae [~Shehrazad@ks385966.kimsufi.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 16:18 < kanzure> "Approximate" 16:18 < brownies> and how do libraries... oh, right, libraries pay to search those databases. 16:18 < kanzure> surely you know this about google... 16:18 < brownies> man, this is all fucked. 16:18 < kanzure> yes that too 16:18 -!- fenn [~fenn@131.252.130.248] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 16:18 < kanzure> oh no the server is dying 16:18 < kanzure> abandon ship 16:18 < brownies> ok, well, in theory, a university or library that subscribed to all these journals could laboriously trawl through all their journals and put together the index needed to compute this information 16:19 -!- fenn [~fenn@131.252.130.248] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:19 < brownies> is that, at least, right? 16:19 < kanzure> sorta kinda. impact factor itself probably has a custom formula that ISI uses. but there's a growing trend of "altmetrics" by some of the "open access" advocates. 16:19 -!- Shehrazad [~Shehrazad@unaffiliated/shehrazad] has joined ##hplusroadmap 16:20 < kanzure> but yes if you had the data you could do pagerank to it and come up with something for ranking things 16:21 < brownies> oh sure. it would not be Impact Factor(tm) but it would be a meaningful measurement of how impactful the journal is. 16:21 < brownies> yeah, time-weighting + page-rank would land on a metric that's probably good to go right out the door 16:22 -!- chris_99 [~chris_99@unaffiliated/chris-99/x-3062929] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 16:22 < kanzure> if you google around for "altmetrics" you will maybe find some clever ideas 16:22 < kanzure> but i dunno how many have caught on 16:22 < kanzure> mendelsevier was selling a dashboard to grant funding agencies and universities for measuring "your altmetrics" based on all of the pdf readership data they were collecting. 16:23 < brownies> that seems... a bit backwards. 16:23 < brownies> but, yeah, having one catch on would be the hard part. 16:24 < kanzure> how is it backwards? 16:26 < brownies> trying to escape arbitrary black-box metrics by paying another company to run black-box metrics for you? 16:37 < kanzure> their product is actually about "including more data in your grant proposals so that you have a better chance of winning" 17:02 < brownies> interesting. 17:04 < kanzure> blah blah blah grants are highly competitive 17:04 < kanzure> blah blah blah additional evidence because of recent NIH cutbacks due to sequestration 17:05 < kanzure> insert even more evidence here because of glut of phds, postdocs, grad students, etc. all competing for a limited number of academic positions with limited positions. 17:07 < kanzure> brownies: oh man now there's lots of spam comments piling up on that post, 17:07 < kanzure> brownies: "Please get in touch with me personally to discuss the start of the ubited academics journal of mathematics. Written by all, reviewed by all and available for all!" 17:08 < kanzure> yes the "ubited academics journal".. of course.. 17:09 < brownies> UbiTed, i assume. 17:09 < kanzure> ubiTED.. i get it. 17:09 < brownies> heh 17:10 < brownies> kanzure: which post? 17:12 < kanzure> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/elsevier-journals-has-anything-changed/ 17:12 < kanzure> i'm pretty sure this is just someone trying to capitalize on the open access "gold rush" 17:12 < kanzure> except this gold rush has been going on for at least 5-7 years now (which is even stranger) 17:13 < kanzure> i mean the person in the comments, not the post of course 17:13 -!- superkuh [~superkuh@unaffiliated/superkuh] has quit [Quit: the neuronal action potential is an electrical manipulation of reversible abrupt phase changes in the lipid bilayer] 17:15 < brownies> so it's not a rush, and there isn't very much gold, but other than that it's a gold rush? 17:15 < brownies> great. 17:15 < kanzure> well there's gold to the extent that science publishing is >$1B/year 17:15 < kanzure> http://scholarlyoa.com/ chronicles all of the spam journals that have been appearing 17:16 < kanzure> it's like academic phishing, except researchers are almost required to engage them because of "publish or perish" policies at their institutions (e.g. some researchers might be fired if they don't publish enough papers, so sometimes they have to settle for low quality journals to publish in) 17:16 < kanzure> but these journals still charge $500-$2000/page to publish 17:17 < kanzure> so yeah it's a gold rush.. if you just slap up a site and say you're a journal, then start taking payments, you're doing OK. 17:17 < xablor[away]> Nice gig if you can stomach it. 17:18 -!- xablor[away] is now known as xablor 17:18 < xablor> Whups, forgot that was up. 17:23 < brownies> so we should start a journal? 17:23 < brownies> or better yet, a journal platform? 17:24 < kanzure> that's what these guys did: 17:24 < kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/startup-science-2012/pete-binfield-peerj 17:24 < kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/startup-science-2012/richard-price-academia.edu 17:24 < kanzure> http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/startup-science-2012/heather-piwowar-jason-priem/ 17:24 < kanzure> well okay at least just peerj 17:26 < xablor> Hm. Function of sci journals was to rebroadcast submissions, yes? Because paper is heavy? 17:27 < kanzure> it was because of printing press costs 17:27 < brownies> PeerJ is a pretty terrible name for a journal. 17:27 < kanzure> peerj dawg 17:27 < xablor> And because they had to cut costs and maintain their rep, they had submission referees. 17:27 < brownies> imo the filtering is and always has been the most central role 17:28 < xablor> So the middleman is being disintermediated, and that functionality has to be pushed out into an individual or P2P structure, so... 17:28 < xablor> I wanna jump to Wuffie, here, as a proxy for a reputation tracking system, but that's getting too specific too quickly. 17:28 < kanzure> what? no the middleman isn't being "disintermediated". that's the problem. 17:29 < xablor> *Whuffie 17:29 < xablor> Right, thanks, I got confused. >.< 17:30 < fenn> unfortunately the name whuffie seems to have been co-opted as "how many retweets you have" or something like that 17:30 < kanzure> isn't that klout? 17:31 < xablor> Anyway, they are under pressure due to near-costless distribution methods, so... ooh. Problem's in demonstrating the value-added of the peer refs? 17:31 < kanzure> no they aren't under pressure 17:31 < kanzure> they are still going pretty strong, raking in cash. 17:32 < fenn> they have a stranglehold on professional advancement, and independent open journals won't change that quickly 17:32 < xablor> Which seems bizarre-ish... do they get an exclusive license to distribute accepted submissions, or what (many things) am I missing, here? 17:33 < kanzure> researchers pay elsevier $1500-$3000/page to publish in journal of foobar owned by elsevier 17:33 < kanzure> schools then turn around and pay elsevier $20,000/mo for electronic access to that journal 17:33 < fenn> young academics can't afford (in terms of effort/time) to publish in "no-name" journals, so the only way this will take off is if established academics take the lead 17:34 < fenn> which seems to be happening, more or less 17:34 < fenn> xablor: a typical publication contract requires the author to hand copyright over to the publisher, so yes, they get an exclusive license 17:35 < xablor> Ew. Okay, thanks. 17:35 < fenn> many authors publish "preprints" on their website, which differ slightly in terms of formatting or whatever 17:35 < kanzure> also not authors do it 17:35 < kanzure> *not all authors 17:36 < fenn> yeah, it takes a certain level of do-goodness 17:36 < kanzure> "Over the years, five overlapping groups of Nobel laureates have written public letters to Congress in support of OA policies. You could harvest names from these letters:" 17:36 < kanzure> first letter, August 26, 2004; 25 signatures http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/nobelists2004.html 17:36 < kanzure> second letter, July 8, 2007; 26 signatures http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bof.html 17:36 < kanzure> third letter, September 9, 2008; 33 signatures http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/nobelistssupportpa-08sept.pdf 17:37 < kanzure> fourth letter, November 10, 2009; 41 signatures http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/supporters/scientists/nobelists_2009.shtml 17:37 < kanzure> fifth letter, March 28, 2012; 52 signatures http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/2012-nobelists-lofgren.pdf 17:37 < kanzure> so much for "argument from authority" 17:37 < kanzure> if nobel prize winners can't convince everyone to switch over, then that's troubling. 17:37 < fenn> it's network effects, pure and simple 17:38 < kanzure> i hope that zuckerberg's fund/prize wins out in the end. maybe they could focus exclusively on open access, even. 17:38 < kanzure> wins out over nobel's, i mean. 17:38 -!- augur [~augur@129-2-129-34.wireless.umd.edu] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 17:39 < fenn> throwing money at successful people doesn't help other people become successful 17:41 < kanzure> i'm happy open access is probably gaining traction, but i'm worried about the few hundred years of content we don't have 17:41 < kanzure> supposedly stuff from before the 1920s is supposed to be out of copyright, except the publishers probably claim copyright on their scanned versions 17:42 < kanzure> and then all the juicy stuff between 1920-2013 is still going to be missing, even if everyone switched immediately to purely open access. 17:43 < fenn> i dont get how you can copyright a scan 17:44 < fenn> i took a picture of the mona lisa so now i own it, what? 17:44 < kanzure> i think they claim they can? 17:44 < kanzure> well, you probably didn't take a picture of it, you probably took a picture of some other reproduction of it. unless you went to see the mona lisa. which i think is off-limits to photography anyway. 17:44 < fenn> either way 17:45 < fenn> if i print out their scan and scan it, do i own the "new" work? 17:45 < kanzure> isn't that a "derivative" 18:30 < brownies> kanzure: here's an idea 18:31 < brownies> what if you just wrote a paper and published the PDF 18:31 < brownies> and then your bros at other universities would come by and endorse it, like, "yeah bro this guy is legit" 18:31 < kanzure> because most authors write in .docx or latex. 18:31 < kanzure> .tex, i mean. 18:31 < yoleaux> http://is.gd/N3HXGj 18:31 < brownies> kanzure: latex compiles to PDF. that is not really the point at all. 18:31 < kanzure> oh fuck you yoleaux 18:31 < brownies> kanzure: i mean, just totally decentralize and throw things on the internet as PDFs. why have journals at all? 18:31 < brownies> just have bros endorsing bros. 18:32 < ParahSail1n> to what end? 18:32 < kanzure> 18:31 < kanzure> .tex, i mean. 18:32 < kanzure> 18:31 < yoleaux> http://is.gd/N3HXGj 18:32 < kanzure> that was pretty funny :/ 18:32 < brownies> because then you get publishing + distribution + filtering 18:32 < brownies> you can grab a PDF and be like "which famous science bros have signed off on this as legit?" 18:32 < kanzure> how is this not solved by whuffie? 18:32 < brownies> i don't know. maybe it is. 18:33 < brownies> just saying that perhaps the notion of a "journal" is not really that important anyway. 18:34 < ParahSail1n> but how will you collect NSF and NIH money? 18:34 < ParahSail1n> im missing this part of the scheme 18:34 < brownies> you get your bros at the NSF to endorse your papers, duh 18:34 < fenn> it's nice to have aggregators and preservation for posterity. not that this would be difficult with your system, of course 18:34 < ParahSail1n> there are no bros at the NSF 18:34 < brownies> ah, well, then we could settle for having it endorsed by bros who previously got grants from the NSF. that would be just as good of a signal. 18:34 < ParahSail1n> only rentseekrs 18:35 < fenn> we should have had a distributed trust network a long time ago, why didn't that ever happen? 18:35 < fenn> sort of like what was on advogato 18:36 < kanzure> i am not convinced that open access has architecture problems moving forward 18:36 < kanzure> if it's open access, someone can come along and organize things differently as they please 18:37 -!- WinterIsComing [~textual@pool-108-35-189-82.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net] has quit [Quit: My MacBook has gone to sleep. ZZZzzz…] 18:38 < ParahSail1n> you seem to be mistaken on the purpose of journals 18:39 < ParahSail1n> its not dissemination of information; it's signaling to the rent-distribution agencies 18:39 < kanzure> well, for my purposes, it's so that i don't have to repeat all your shitty work for myself 18:40 < ParahSail1n> that was directed at brownies 18:41 < brownies> it is signaling 18:41 < brownies> that is why i have been talking about another way to signal 18:41 < ParahSail1n> for simple dissemination of information, a simple mailing list will function up to a certain scale 18:41 < brownies> i am not sure what was unclear about that. 19:05 < kanzure> diybio portland things http://50.87.144.12/~portlab/ 19:05 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 19:05 -!- helleshin [~talinck@69-61-156-24.ubr1.dyn.lebanon-oh.fuse.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:16 < ParahSail1n> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-go-beyond 19:20 < ParahSail1n> better range than quadrotor might mean more useful for taco delivery 19:22 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-66-27-118-94.san.res.rr.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:22 < fenn> what no time travel delorean tilt-wheels? 19:33 < xablor> Hm. People don't trust trust network mechanisms if they can see them - they trust other people. 19:33 < xablor> This is a proposition, not statement ex cathedra. 19:35 < xablor> So some bayesian measure of how often this guy has accurately refereed his submissions isn't gonna play, except maybe as feeding into a mechanism that's run by a face that the community at large can respect. 19:40 -!- lichen_ [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Lost terminal] 19:40 < JayDugger> Good evening, everyone. 19:42 < kanzure> nope, people already respect nobel prize winners, so that's authority has proven to be an insufficient bootstrapping process. 19:42 < fenn> the impact factor formula is already (sorta) accepted as a measure of someone's worth, and it's totally objective and transparent 19:42 < fenn> we've arrived at this surprising state of things because scientists are weird 19:44 < xablor> Do people actually respect Nobel winners? 19:44 < xablor> In a way that they could be considered domain experts on the organization of the public scientific effort? 19:46 < xablor> I mean one is a Name who is a giant in the field. But the same person advising Congress on policy not immediately in their field isn't so impressive. 19:46 < fenn> sure but the library scientists say the same thing 19:47 < fenn> so you've got celebrity backing and expert validation 19:47 < xablor> Doesn't matter, the reputation isn't there. 19:47 < xablor> I mean, not with congresscritters. 19:48 < kanzure> fenn: impact factor(tm) is not completely transparent, actually. 19:48 < fenn> oh, because you can't download the citation web? 19:48 < kanzure> xablor: i fail to see what this has to do with congress? 19:49 < kanzure> fenn: no, because ISI has its own unique formula and most people use the ISI impact factor(tm) 19:49 < fenn> i didnt know that 19:49 < kanzure> and plus ISI has a better citation web than you do, yes 19:49 < brownies> kanzure: how has it been proven insufficient? 19:49 < kanzure> what? 19:49 < brownies> i think their endorsement on a paper would be sufficient; they don't seem to be able to organize a departure from current journals, but that seems unrelated 19:49 < kanzure> i wonder if anyone is looking at non-ISI impact factor. 19:49 < xablor> Just citing the letters to Congress from asstd Nobel laureates as an example of the disconnect. 19:50 < xablor> Actually I'm kinda surprised some radical in the Data Liberation Front hasn't leaked a cite graph from the last century. 19:50 < kanzure> brownies: they have endorsed on paper. what are you talking about? 19:50 < brownies> kanzure: reading is hard! 19:51 < brownies> kanzure: a nobel laureate endorsing A paper, as in a scientific paper, would be meaningful 19:51 < brownies> kanzure: them endorsing a sheet of paper about how they want OA is not meaningful 19:51 < kanzure> i don't think nobels endorse a given paper as it is, unless they authored it. 19:52 < brownies> do they serve on journal review committees? 19:52 < brownies> or are they too old and distinguished for that 19:53 < fenn> not all nobel laureates are old 19:53 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has joined ##hplusroadmap 19:55 < fenn> huh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fenn_(chemist) 19:57 < kanzure> strange "Fenn's research into electrospray ionization found him at the center of a legal dispute with Yale University. He lost the lawsuit, after it was determined that he misled the university about the potential usefulness of the technology. Yale was awarded $500,000 in legal fees and $545,000 in damages" 20:01 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:04 < fenn> to his credit, he was officially retired when he developed electrospray ionization 20:05 < fenn> it sounds like yale just had better lawyers 20:13 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 20:18 < kanzure> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote: 20:18 < kanzure> > From what I've been hearing, it's all about liability in the medical 20:18 < kanzure> > industry. Doing medicine on the grey/black market will add cost simply 20:18 < kanzure> i'm not sure black market insurance is a thing that makes sense.. 20:18 < kanzure> > because it's illegal and that increases the risk for the operator. 20:18 < kanzure> > Licensed/Insured doctors mess up and they get sued, when some 20:18 < kanzure> > underground treatment screws up, how do you sue? 20:19 < xablor> Baseball bat to the knee is the time-honored tradition, as I hear it? 20:19 < xablor> Escalate countermeasures and counter-countermeasures as appropriate. 20:50 < kanzure> he's referring to my black market antibodies idea 20:50 < xablor> Sorry, I've not heard this one. Halp? 20:51 < kanzure> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/diybio/BSN_Yn1y8T0 20:52 -!- augur [~augur@208.58.5.87] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:55 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 20:56 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@node10.19.251.72.1dial.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:56 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@node10.19.251.72.1dial.com] has quit [Changing host] 20:56 -!- Viper168 [~Viper@unaffiliated/viper168] has joined ##hplusroadmap 20:57 < xablor> I like that the OC's handle is Reason. 20:57 < xablor> Estimated odds of being a Randian and/or INTJ? 21:07 < kanzure> reason is an asshole about his username 21:07 < kanzure> just because you're some blogger doesn't mean you get to go around calling yourself "reason" 21:07 < kanzure> anyway, he runs fightaging.org 21:07 < kanzure> i haven't been able to figure out his real identity for years 21:17 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:35 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@71-217-116-197.tukw.qwest.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:35 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@71-217-116-197.tukw.qwest.net] has quit [Changing host] 21:35 -!- AshleyWaffle [~quassel@unaffiliated/anastasiawyatt] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:49 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] 21:49 -!- FooQuuxman [~test@c-98-215-254-55.hsd1.il.comcast.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 21:50 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 21:59 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 22:00 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:08 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 22:10 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:13 -!- superkuh [~superkuh@unaffiliated/superkuh] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:17 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds] 22:20 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:26 < nmz787> paperbot: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15599612.2010.484521#.UaQ_5LVOSSp 22:26 < paperbot> no translator available, raw dump: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/285c31e7a03bcb08c13d2f206166765.txt 22:28 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 264 seconds] 22:30 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:31 < xablor> So the point of paperbot is just to pull PDFs from a page and save them in a known spot for further use? 22:32 < xablor> 'cause that last link pulled down the abstract and a bunch of JS and that's about it. 22:32 < kanzure> unfortunately paperbot does not have complete access to all scientific knowledge 22:32 < kanzure> so it just fails gracefully in those cases because sometimes there's hints about how to get the pdf in the html/js pile. 22:32 < kanzure> https://github.com/kanzure/paperbot 22:32 < xablor> Ah, okay. 22:32 < kanzure> https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia 22:34 < xablor> Hm. Niftyish. 22:38 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 22:40 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:41 < nmz787> kanzure: sci-hub redirected me to http://www.myescience.org/ 22:41 < nmz787> after pasting that link there 22:41 < kanzure> yeah, you have to use a proxy in russia 22:42 < xablor> Hum. 22:42 < kanzure> nmz787: try 91.202.165.149:8080 22:42 < xablor> *ponders silly things about automating requests for papers to human supply networks* 22:43 < kanzure> xablor: you are boring and you bore me http://diyhpl.us/wiki/articles 22:43 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-67-174-253-229.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 22:43 < kanzure> also i'm not sure why you would want humans involved when paperbot/sci-hub is working just fine 22:44 < nmz787> connection timed out on that ip 22:44 < kanzure> ok one minute 22:44 < xablor> Of the past... five? Links it's been handed, it's been able to access one at most. 22:45 < kanzure> *shrug* submit a pull request fixing it, then 22:45 < xablor> Ergo falling back to the handy list of sources you've just posted. 22:45 < kanzure> nmz787: 91.211.127.125:3128 22:45 < nmz787> xablor: do you have exproxy account access to contribute to paperbot being able to use 22:46 < kanzure> ezproxy 22:46 < xablor> N'yet. 22:46 < nmz787> error the requested URL could not be retrieved 22:46 < xablor> Is this a desirable tihng? 22:46 < nmz787> well that's about the only way people easily get access to papers 22:46 < kanzure> if you are in school then you probably have access to an ezproxy instance 22:47 < nmz787> or direct login for certain publishers 22:47 < xablor> I'm not, sadly. 22:47 < kanzure> ok. well, you could write some python to make paperbot try sci-hub as a fallback. 22:48 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 22:50 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:50 < xablor> ...should I learn Russian/Cyrillic before attempting this? 22:50 < kanzure> sure! learning russian is a useful thing to do. 22:50 < kanzure> you can help me communicate with shady botnet herders. 22:51 < xablor> Hm. German's the current effort, but wth, it beats doing the weaboo thing. 22:53 < ParahSail1n> cyrillic is not that hard to sound out, its like greek with a couple wacky letters thrown in 22:55 < kanzure> nmz787: did the second proxy work? 22:58 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 22:58 * AlonzoTG is writing a story about my vision of transhumanism. 22:59 < AlonzoTG> part 2 is about my nightmares of an uploader takeover. 22:59 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 22:59 < AlonzoTG> but I'm having trouble developing concepts for the antagonists. 23:00 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:02 -!- klafka [~klafka@c-24-6-18-31.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 23:02 < nmz787> kanzure: no 23:06 < kanzure> ugh didn't i ban this guy 23:07 -!- lichen [~lichen@c-24-21-206-64.hsd1.or.comcast.net] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:08 < AlonzoTG> ???? 23:08 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 23:10 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:15 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 23:16 -!- sivoais [~zaki@unaffiliated/sivoais] has joined ##hplusroadmap 23:18 < kanzure> superkuh: http://hackaday.com/2013/05/26/detecting-galactic-rotation-with-software-defined-radio/ 23:20 < superkuh> I've been talking to him on ##rtlsdr and following the Society for Amateur Radio Astronomy list for a long time time. It is really neat stuff. 23:20 < superkuh> My current project is a 11 GHz adding interferometer with non-synchronized clocks on the downconverters. 23:26 -!- ielo [~ielo@cpc9-addl4-2-0-cust229.6-3.cable.virginmedia.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds] 23:26 < nmz787> superkuh: for what? 23:27 < nmz787> fiberoptics? 23:29 < superkuh> Solar photosphere continuum radio emissions. 23:31 < superkuh> It's a "Very Small Radio Telescope" http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/undergrad/VSRT/index.html but with a rtlsdr device and gnu radio instead of a discrete hardware integrator and tv digitizer with java. 23:39 -!- yashgaroth [~ffffff@cpe-66-27-118-94.san.res.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Leaving] 23:40 < superkuh> http://superkuh.com/VSRT-first-light.png - this shows my test pointing at the sun with two small dishes on a 1 meter baseline east to west. The display shows total power at ~11 GHz in a 2 MHz wide bandwidth that can be tuned +-1GHz or so. When you look at the fourier transform of the total power you can see the fringe modulation of the interferometer at the beat frequency between the two free running clocks. ~90 KHz in this case. The powe 23:40 < superkuh> r of that bin is read out as the fringes. 23:41 -!- Charlie [~quassel@74.63.212.44] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] 23:41 < superkuh> I've been trying to add it as a plugin to Marcus Leech's simple_ra fifo system but that isn't necessarily needed. 23:43 < nmz787> software interferometer? 23:43 < superkuh> The cross correlation is all analog and out front. 23:43 < superkuh> The rtlsdr is just a cheap, easy way to get data in. 23:48 < superkuh> In the VSRT Memos they say the angular resolution is good enough to resolve individual sunspots using a tiny 3 element array of 18" dishes for phase "closure" and informed guesses at the radio diameter of the sun. --- Log closed Tue May 28 00:00:39 2013