Schlagwort: Wissenschaft

Behalve deze.

Stellingen die over stellingen gaan zijn altijd flauw.

Wouter Teepe

Carbon Community.

I must confess that the extent of my conference participation has shrunk over the past year and a half, rather than expanded. Too much choice.

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The very idea that each paper publication must involve conference travel is not morally acceptable anymore.

Moshe Vardi: The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences https://doi.org/10.1145/3488554

Fernöffentlichung.

In this case, the name of the “academic publishing industry” implies that it is supposed to be involved in the dissemination of scholarship. But the effective function of the academic publishing industry as it actually exists is to prevent the dissemination of scholarly work.

Jason Parry: A World Without Sci-Hub

Monsterny.

“I have given up hope, tonight, of ever understanding money.” “It’s simple, really…” “And yet it’s not simple at all,” Daniel said. “It follows simple rules—it obeys logic—and so Natural Philosophy should understand it, encompass it—and I, who know and understand more than almost anyone in the Royal Society, should comprehend it. But I don’t. I never will…if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than Alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules…”

Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver

Understandabilitynessing.

Wie de voorkeur geeft aan het schrijven van teksten gericht op het vergemakkelijken van het begrijpen ervan dient het zich richten op het schrijven van gebruiksaanwijzingen voor IKEA te overwegen.

De Speld: Met deze academische schrijftips zorg je ervoor dat niemand je paper per ongeluk kan begrijpen