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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? | Science | The Guardian - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...fic-publishing-bad-for-science

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shared by gpetit on 28 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • gpetit on 28 Jun 17
     
    "Publishing industry exerts too much influence over what scientists choose to study, which is ultimately bad for science itself"
  • jcunha on 04 Jul 17
     
    On a related topic - a nice read written in 1939 from Abraham Flexner the founder of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, home of some great minds on the "Usefulness of Useless Knowledge". Enjoy https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 17
     
    This article is fantastic - starts already well with : "r IT not a curious fact that in a world steeped in irrational hatreds which threaten civilization itself, men and women-old and young-detach them-selves wholly or partly from the angry current of daily life to devote themselves to the cultivation ofbeauty, to the exten-sion ofknowledge, to the cure ofdisease, to the amelioration of suffering, just as though fanatics were not simultaneously engaged in spreading pain, ugliness, and suffering?" Could almost be written now
koskons

Translating lost languages using machine learning | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 0 views

news.mit.edu/...es-using-machine-learning-1021

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shared by koskons on 27 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • koskons on 27 Oct 20
     
    System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history.
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