No way there are lots of people who excelled at math stocking shelves
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher
Readit Newsteorema commented on One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones nav.al/einstein... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
teorema commented on One Einstein Is Worth a Legion of PhD Drones nav.al/einstein... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If we all took the "someone else would do it someday" view, we'd never praise anyone.
The problem isn't who we praise, it's who we don't praise.
Maybe we live in a different world today but my sense is scientific innovation happens in a very different way from the genius model.
Sometime long ago I came across an article arguing that we've replaced the concept of a saint with a genius, as the worldview shifted from religion to science. It was very compelling.
Increasingly I feel like there's only collective recognition. If you're too far ahead of the curve or behind it's all the same. Being at the curve just means you're recognizing everything at the same time as everyone else.
teorema commented on The Spiral Staircase Myth (2020) triskeleheritage.triskele... · Posted by u/dgellow
I wonder whether clockwise was generally favoured over anti-clockwise (or widdershins [1]) for superstitious reasons. Clockwise is "right" vs anticlockwise as "left".
I wonder if you just asked 1000 people to draw a spiral without any other context, would there be some handedness/chirality to the drawings? My guess is there would be.
https://briankoberlein.com/blog/gripping-hand/
teorema commented on The Spiral Staircase Myth (2020) triskeleheritage.triskele... · Posted by u/dgellow
OP claims it's "obvious" that the staircases are designed for defense, contradicting the article while giving no evidence. This despite the fact that the whole point of the article was that there does not appear to be evidence to support this claim.
Yeah the author seems to be approaching their overall argument by first establishing that there's no primary source evidence from the time of castle building that the defense theory is true. He seems to be trying to establish that the argument for it is modern and therefore just as good or bad as any other.
I wish he would delve into things more but it seems reasonable to me to first establish where the defense theory first came from.
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teorema commented on Mysteries the Standard Model can’t explain symmetrymagazine.org/arti... · Posted by u/jc_811
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.”
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Yes, it is a URI schema. FAQ #11, at https://www.doi.org/faq.html
> DOI & URI: how does the DOI system work with web URI technologies?
> DOI names may be expressed as URLs (URIs) through a HTTP proxy server. In addition, DOI is a registered URI within the info-URI namespace (IETF RFC 4452, the "info" URI Scheme for Information Assets with Identifiers in Public Namespaces). See the DOI Handbook, 2 Numbering and 3 Resolution, for more information.
I know little about IPFS. I know a bit more about DOIs.
A DOI maps more to an abstract, mutable resource than a specific document or file. That doesn't seem so easy to express in IPFS.
Take doi:10.1093/nar/gkz173 which I picked arbitrarily. This resolves to https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/47/11/e63/5377471 .
That shows the content of the paper in HTML, with an option to download in PDF.
It also has references to the journal issue, methods to get the citation in various format, a navigation bar for the site, and branding for the journal.
Many of these may change over time. Indeed, the paper itself may change if there are any updates or corrections, without changing the DOI.
Or the paper might be retracted, like doi:10.1126/scisignal.abn0168 which resolves to https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.abn0168 . The original paper is no longer accessible. (An alternative is to add the equivalent of a big red stamp on it saying "RETRACTED" while leaving the content accessible.)
Finally, I suspect many journals would not accept a scheme which prevents them from charging for access.
Could you explain how IPFS might handle these issues of multiple formats, mutability, and payment?
re: mutability you just have the standard be that the document being linked to is a sort of wrapper to the actual one. My guess is this is really what's going on with doi anyway.
But you're correct that the mutability issue is sort of a tricky one.
There's this from IPFS about mutability:
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/file-systems/#mutable-file-sys...
Sure, but 10.1083 is still a shitty link compared to nature.com, independent of which url prefix is used.
Journals, even prominent ones, change names for all sorts of reasons. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. The meaningfulness issue can cut both ways.
I think the real problem is the centralized vs federated vs distributed nature of it. IPFS is a good example of how that could have looked; not sure if it could be moved into that space somehow (I'm sure it could in theory, but in practice?)
teorema commented on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old twitter.com/TheIdOfAlan/s... · Posted by u/dario_satu
> thisismyconfig.txt vs this is my config.txt or this_is_my_config.txt
Just wondering, what is the readability of this for people who are dyslexic?
tbh I'm not dyslexic and realized the spaces make it really difficult to know what the filename actually is. If you just take the second example, how would you know if the file was "this is my config.txt" versus "config.txt"?
Aside from parsing errors it just seems to lend itself to ambiguity.
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