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Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also a pseudo professor. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
Nothing he says on this blog should be construed as having anything to do with his employer or his dog.
Category: The Loony Bin Called Academia
Science is dynamic. Sometimes this means that science is wrong, sometimes it means that science is messy. Mostly it is very self-correcting, given the current state of knowledge. At any given time the body of science knows a lot, but...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:11 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientific Publishing
A friend sent me a link to Detextify2:What is this? Anyone who works with LaTeX knows how time-consuming it can be to find a symbol in symbols-a4.pdf that you just can't memorize. Detexify is an attempt to simplify this search....
Posted by Dave Bacon at 8:08 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientific Publishing
What in the world is a review for Star Trek doing in Nature Physics? (Thank to reader W for pointing this out.) I mean, at least the review of Angels and Demons has references to physics, but the review of...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 2:46 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Loony Bin Called Academia
One of the more interesting "problems" in Science 2.0 is the lack of commenting on online articles. In particular some journals now allow one to post comments about papers published in the journal. As this friendfeed conversation asks:Why people do...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 12:15 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Over 9 months ago I decided to apply for teaching tenure track jobs. Then the economy took what can best be described as a massive, ill-aimed, swan dive. Thus creating an incredible amount of stress in my life. So what...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 11:14 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Scientific Publishing
A while back, Aram commented on how he had trouble trying to get arXiv links into a paper he had written (read the further comments for a comment indicating that it was not the policy of the journal to do...
Posted by Dave Bacon at 3:36 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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