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Why should we want our papers to be highly cited? I assume here that we want our work to influence other researchers, and that citation count is a reasonable estimate of influence.

be ambitious.

Most papers should make a single point.

How is your contribution different from what has been said a thousand times before?

when we build software for scientists, we should think about what they would do with the returned information. That’s where context is really important as well. I’ve seen too many examples where the user is offered options that make no sense for what you want to achieve.

Let’s get concrete about what I mean here. The brain is one of the most complex networks in the world, with more neurons than there are stars in the galaxy. Its hardware is a complex network of neurons; its software a complex network of memories. And so too is the Internet a network. Its hardware is a complex network of computers; its software a complex network of websites. There is a lot we can learn from the brain and it can tell us where the Internet is headed next.

东三省肺疫流行还是晚清时期，晋北肺疫流行已是民国，但这两套疫事报告书有一个共同的特点，就是都有详细的来自最高层的材料，从大臣奏折到皇帝御批，从督军报告到总统电令，悉数全在其中。所以今天研究中国瘟疫史的人，可以通过这些材料分析当时中央和地方对疫事的态度和责任。另外，这两套编纂和印制颇为复杂的报告书，都是在疫情过后的当年完成，第二年出版的，这个速度令人感佩。

1910年12月（宣统二年），东三省肺疫流行过后，曾出版过三大册《东三省疫事报告书》（宣统三年十一月出版，非卖品），对于此次灾难的记录非常详细。整个过程涉及的所有材料都在其中，这三册报告书中，有一册全部是图片和相关的图表

我们有一万条理由比一百年前做得更好，但我还没有这样的信心，因为有些东西制约了我们做事的器局

Goldstein is expected to announce "social banners," or display ads that turn you or your friends into the hook of a marketing message. In tandem, SocialMedia will announce that it's developed a patent-pending algorithm called FriendRank to power those social banners. It's like Google's PageRank, but instead of ranking pages for their popularity, it ranks friendships.

The internet is giving us a form of ADHD when it comes to reading, and we should be scared of that.