On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Noel O'Boyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> >
> > Look forward to hearing Noel's views
>
> This was not initiated by me, but I've signed up to support it:
>
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/19727/computational-natural-sciences
>
> They keep changing the scope (feature creep), so that now it includes
> comp biol, phys too. I think that's a mistake. Comp chem will be
> swamped out. Not enough people have signed up to support it yet, so I
> don't know if it's going to make it out of beta.
>
> The barrier to adoption is quite high (ca 15 Q's per day, etc - see the
physics one http://physics.stackexchange.com/ ). I don't think we ca afford
to wait for stackexchange to generate a compchem resource  (it's 11% of the
way there). And I think - like you - that natural science is far too broad.

For interest, has there been any interaction of this with CCL?

P.

- Noel
>



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University of Cambridge
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