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Jan 22, 2011 00:28

"Publication standards vary widely, with some conferences and journals accepting all submissions, and others accepting only a few. More important, almost all research is useless; no one really reads the papers. (One study estimates that on the average, a given research paper is read by .5 people, with the number being skewed upward by the few ( Read more... )

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oaksylph January 26 2011, 03:56:23 UTC
What is C getting into these days!!!

Thanks for the Watson link. It makes a fascinating counterpoint to the chapter of "An Anthropologist on Mars" that I was reading the other night (the chapter about the autist with a PhD and a small business). Now if only IBM would create a computer that could simulate cats, then merge the two, we'd have a shot at AI with both id and data.

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