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Sci-bakery
As a means to stimulate accessibility to scientific community. | |
Scientific dialogue is generally carried out in form of
scholarly
papers and conferences, but people like Christopher
Langan,
"without academic credentials, despair of ever getting
published in a scholarly journal."
The idea of applying halfbakery-like informal yet very
critical,
and
quickly-responding crowd of intelligent people to
read and
criticize your intellectual work, would likely stimulate
informal
scientific communication among such intelligent people.
The categories would include a hierarchy of sciences.
Participants would send-in their statements/conclusions
(for others
to criticize), with references to their elaboration (i.e.,
proofs, experiments, etc.) in
the [link] section.
[link]
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I'm not sure that's a good idea. Halfbakers aren't
renowned for their civility and decorum, you might
observe. |
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umm... wasn't this the idea for the original internet?: connect up all the uni's, free flowing ideas, yadda yadda. |
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NNTP (newsgroups) are well suited to this sort of thing (as they are to many things, being a generic bbs/forum protocol)... could even do that here: at first glance the only obvious content loss would be buns'n'bones tallying (and about 99% of the visitors, who don't use ng's, and account/post control, and a bunch of other stuff that makes us happily smug). |
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I foresee all submissions ranging from X-Ray crystallography to protein-folding enzymes all devolving (evolving?) to discussions about custard. This could be seen as a drawback by the overall scientific community. |
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I just did a quick Google search. Looks like CosmoCoffee is close to what you're after. |
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um...<raises hand> I think I like this idea, but I need to look up ng's and account/post protocol first. |
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I meant that the HB could run on NNTP (as can any forum type thing), but we'd lose fine control of posts and annos. |
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