Eisen’s comments on the future of scholarly publishing
Michael Eisen gave a talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco recently. Eisen is the founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a large number of open-access journals in the...
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The Fractal Prince [Hannu Rajaniemi] — the sequel to The Quantum Thief is a bit of an arabesque (fans of Grimwood or Effinger may like that aspect). There are some interesting ideas about...
View ArticleTurkish Visa requirements
My father pointed out this update from the ISIT website: Foreigners travelling to Turkey will need passports and for many countries visas to enter Turkey. The most up-to-date visa information can be...
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Yet more skims from ArXiV
I’m still catching up on my backlog of reading everything, but I’ve decided to set some time aside to take a look at a few papers from ArXiV. Lecture Notes on Free Probability by Vladislav Kargin,...
View ArticleISIT notice from the organizers on the protest
Dear ISIT Participant, As you may well be aware, there is an ongoing sit-in protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul. The protest is about a road construction and renovation project which calls for cutting...
View ArticleOpen letter to the Urbana Free Library
I learned recently of a terrible tragedy at the Urbana Free Library, which was one of the formative institutions of my childhood. The Executive Director, Debra Lissak, authorized the removal of all...
View ArticleRIP, Jim Massey
I just read via Sergio that James Massey has passed away. He also posted this link to an interview. My memories of meeting Massey are from my childhood — by the time I got to graduate school he stopped...
View ArticleA poem in lieu of a post
I’ve not been posting because I have been visiting Japan for the last week (and for another week after this). I am teaching one week of a machine learning course at the Toyota Technological Institute...
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