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blog.jessriedel.com is a personal blog at blog.jessriedel.com about science and philosophy. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts for a proposed system between arXiv, Git, Wikipedia and Overleaf for scientific publishing and peer review, and for a physics explainer on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-06-28
- GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-21
- Legendre transform, better explained (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-03
- FAQ about experimental quantum Darwinism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Here's one version, from Daniel Dennett: > How to compose a successful critical commentary: > 1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way. > 2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement). > 3. You should mention anything you have…
Comment linking /2015/01/28/links-for-january-2015/
on “New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity”Submitted Legendre transform, better explained (2017) as a story · 126 points
HN discussion> But it's like discovering US federal government didn't solve a problem with a faulty light on your street... I was really confused by this comment until I realized you thought I was suggesting Zotero run things because they power Citoid. In fact, as any of the people I eat lunch with can tell you, I have been singing the praises of Zotero for years. http://blog.jessriedel.com/2014/11/12/zotero-is-great-tex-sh... T…
Comment linking /2014/11/12/zotero-is-great-tex-should-be-better/
on “Wikimedia Foundation spending”Submitted GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper as a story · 112 points
HN discussionUC should consider using open platforms for publishing, like MIT's PubPub[1]. In fact, so much was discussed already, current publishing model (aside of the publishers) is a bad fit for modern science. We need better collaboration, interactivity, and reproducibility. See discussion[2] about this a few years ago. And a number of followups[3][4][5]. [1] https://www.pubpub.org/ [2] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16…
Comment linking /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/
on “Elsevier cuts off UC’s access to its academic journals”Submitted Inaccessible Wikipedia science articles as inclusionism as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> I've often thought it would be great for the Arxiv to make it easy to link to a video of the 'talk' that generally goes with a paper. This has been in the idea pipeline for a while, but the arXiv is slow-moving. (They probably wouldn't host the actual video files for cost reasons, but that's not a big deal.) http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/09/02/additional-material-on...
Comment linking /2015/09/02/additional-material-on-the-arxiv/
on “Research Debt”Submitted Quantum Computing Timelines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHaven't read it, but based on the table of contents it looks like it has at least two of the very common problems with QM books: (1) starts with continuous degrees of freedom rather than qubits, and (2) talks about observables rather than PVMs. This isn't surprising since much of what's wrong with how QM is taught has been illuminated by the young field of quantum information, which hardly existed when the book was…
Comment linking /2016/11/12/how-to-think-about-quantum-mechanics-part-0-measurements-are-about-bases/
on “Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)”Submitted How to think about Quantum Mechanics: The quantum-classical limit as music as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSussman is one of the very few classical mechanics textbooks that gives a reasonable definition of the Legendre transform. Most physicists cannot actually tell you what that transform is, even though it sits at the heart of both classical and quantum mechanics. http://blog.jessriedel.com/2017/06/28/legendre-transform/
Comment linking /2017/06/28/legendre-transform/
on “Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)”Submitted Covid Watch and Privacy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust an arXiv with peer-review is not enough. There is a lot of room for innovation and improvement. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. Check out the last[4] article in that series. There are a few implementations, albeit not covering all f…
Comment linking /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/
on “Where Sci-Hub Is”Submitted Distinguish between straight research and scientific opinion? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou seem to have a more liberal interpretation of "somewhat limited" than I do. I have ascribed a 45% chance to this statement, and last year bet $500 against it taking place: "By July 2023, a self-driving car can be reliably hailed by a member of the general public in at least 10 North American cities. At least 8 cities must be outside the San Fransisco Bay Area. The car must available on at least 50% of days, i.e.…
Comment linking /2016/04/
on “Toyota Research Institute head says full autonomous driving is “not even close””Submitted FAQ about experimental quantum Darwinism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLaTeX (and many other TeX-based technologies) simply amazing. But it is not enough for better scientific publishing. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. There are a few implementations, albeit not covering all features, like Authorea[4] and…
Comment linking /2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/
on “Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX”Submitted GitWikXiv follow-up: An open attribution standard for academics? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's a shame that he released it under a no-deriv's CC license. The actual cost of textbooks is small compared to the penalty we all pay from not having our textbooks iteratively refined. http://blog.jessriedel.com/all-posts/2015/04/16/beyond-paper...
Comment linking /all-posts/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/
on “Game Theory: Open Access textbook”All research indeed will benefit from such an approach. Think of transitioning from the lack of version control systems to their appearance. But it is not enough for better scientific publishing. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. See also…
Comment linking /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/
on “Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial”A few years ago, there was also an extensive discussion[1] about possible improvements for the current publishing model and platforms. See several follow up posts[2][3][4] too. [1] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi... [2] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/27/gitwikxiv-follow-up-di... [3] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/22/gitwikxiv-follow-up-an... [4] http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/05…
Comment linking /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/
on “Crispr pioneer among University of California researchers boycotting Elsevier”Not the person you were responding to, but: the Lagrangian formulation describes physics in terms of Least Action (so minimizing (or maximizing) S = ∫ L dt) on a manifold in (x,v) coordinates, and its equations of motion are like L_x - d_t L_v = 0. The second term tends to be second-order in time. The Hamiltonian formulation performs a Legendre transformation[1] on L giving H = v L_v - L, which is essentially a conv…
Comment linking /2017/06/28/legendre-transform/
on “A canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the Navier–Stokes problem”One argument for conservatism: if physicists want a commenting system, why hasn't SciRate taken off?: https://scirate.com/ The interface is clean, it has a lot of nice features, etc. It's gotten some traction in quantum info (my field), but the comments are rarely used. You can chalk this up to network effects (chicken-and-egg), which direct arXiv hosting could solve, but that problem can probably be eliminated by t…
Comment linking /2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/
on “A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science”I was quoted in this piece, and adapted some of my correspondence with the author into a blog post: http://blog.jessriedel.com/2019/07/24/faq-about-experimental...
Comment linking /2019/07/24/faq-about-experimental-quantum-darwinism/
on “Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests”Like I say in my reply, I think Authorea is a nice example of a useful tool to learn from like StackExchange, but even if successful wouldn't answer the central question I brought up. http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxi...
Comment linking /2015/04/16/beyond-papers-gitwikxiv/
on “GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper”I may be misunderstanding your claim, but otherwise I think the article would actually interest you. Here's a quote from the paper: "Instead of starting with the hard problem of why an arrangement of particles can feel conscious, we will start with the hard fact that some arrangement of particles (such as your brain) do feel conscious while others (such as your pillow) do not, and ask what properties of the particle…
Comment linking /2014/05/13/comments-on-tegmarks-consciousness-as-a-state-of-matter/
on “Consciousness as a State of Matter (2014)”Even in places like theoretical physics that aren't connected well to experiments, the literature suffers from the lack of copyleft. Writing good review articles and textbooks are huge, collaborative undertakings that are crippled by the impossibility of directly building on the text of others. Especially in fields that use the arXiv, open access is important not so much because it makes the raw information accessib…
Comment linking /2015/05/20/gitwikxiv-follow-up-a-path-to-forkable-papers/
on “Promoting an open research culture”
