Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
Looks like I've been demoted to Russell3 :( Pretty much right. The other costs are almost negligible - running a webserver, email/office equipment etc. I estimated that it should only cost around $20,000 per annum to run a journal... We had the funding at that level. Cheers On Wed, Feb 15,

[FRIAM] Stephen Wolfram Blog : Launching a Democratization of Data Science

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Johnson
FYI. -tom johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM USA http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/02/launching-a-democratization-of-data-science/ *Launching a Democratization of Data Science February 9, 2012 It's a sad but true fact that most data that's generated or collected—even with

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Owen Densmore
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Gary Schiltz g...@naturesvisualarts.comwrote: Here is the core dump of the recently defunct Code Quarterly magazine (FRIAM connection: this was started by Peter Seibel, who is Fred Seibel's son). Of course, the target audience and contributers are geeks rather

[FRIAM] theory and practice of psychology

2012-02-16 Thread Roger Critchlow
Andrew Gelman blogs http://andrewgelman.com/2012/02/false-positive-psychology about a paper which explains how to not torture your experimental data until it confesses a false positive result, including a worked example which falsely concludes that certain songs can change the age of the listener.

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Russel This may be somewhat Odd-Topic for this list. (apologies) Thanks for mentioning your book, I've located the PDF. Chapter 2 starts with Gospel John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. I wonder if this would compare with a verse from

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Ok, you can be Russell4, Your figure of 20K: That includes some $$$ for staff? Or is that just stuff? I know this is naïve, but do you actually NEED a printer? Is there a Peer-review-Journal ap like there apparently is an academic-conference-running ap? This is something I would like to

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Bruce, Would you be willing to get into the weeds a bit about what those costs are? My imagination is failing me, here. Nick -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Sherwood Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:48 PM To:

[FRIAM] water use footrpint

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Paryski
Excellent article on a study of world water consumption which points out that the US consumes more per capita than any other country. Worth more than a glance. Paul http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/tracking-how-the-world-guzzles-water/

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:22:02PM +0530, Sarbajit Roy wrote: Dear Russel This may be somewhat Odd-Topic for this list. (apologies) Thanks for mentioning your book, I've located the PDF. Chapter 2 starts with Gospel John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

Re: [FRIAM] Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Ok, you can be Russell4, Your figure of 20K: That includes some $$$ for staff? Or is that just stuff? I know this is naïve, but do you actually NEED a printer? Its pretty much entirely staff. Other costs are almost

[FRIAM] Solve For X talks

2012-02-16 Thread Owen Densmore
I just watched 3 of the initial Solve for X videos. They are short, 10-15 mins on average. (You can skip the intro by Schmidt and Brin .. you already know all that I think.) The three were: higher education impact Michael Crow resource reclamation Privahini Bradoo learning by themselves

[FRIAM] Announcing the School of Data | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

2012-02-16 Thread Tom Johnson
Another example of interesting trends in the Open Data galaxy. Although giving frequent flyer miles of AmEx points might be more appreciated than badges. *Today, we’re announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between the Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/

[FRIAM] Implementing Actors in Kernel

2012-02-16 Thread Dale Schumacher
When Steele and Sussman wanted to explore Actors, they built an evaluator in LISP. Their work eventually resulted in Scheme, which moved us from dynamic to static/lexical scoping, but is _not_ an actor language. Since then there has been ongoing confusion about the relationship, if any, between

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Sherwood
Ruth has been on the board of two physics journals, one conventional and the other like what I described. She tells me that the main costs are associated with servers (which surprised me), with formatting, and with salaries. In the case of the on-line physics journal for which readers pay nothing

Re: [FRIAM] Elsevier - my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog

2012-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:05:52PM -0700, Bruce Sherwood wrote: Ruth has been on the board of two physics journals, one conventional and the other like what I described. She tells me that the main costs are associated with servers (which surprised me), with formatting, and with salaries.

[FRIAM] Berkeley Electronic Press

2012-02-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Wow! Look what just turned up. http://www.bepress.com/allservices.html http://www.bepress.com/edikit.html It must be expensive. The web page is like one of those menus a fancy French restaurant . no prices. If you have to ask, you really shouldn't have visited this website. Anybody

Re: [FRIAM] Private note to you- Re: Self publishing

2012-02-16 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Dear Victoria I appreciate that you have contacted me directly. I emphaticially state that I have never believed that these are infantie prattlings and I'm sorry I've led you to believe so.. It wan't a hypothetical / mythic Englishman and neither were the word mine. The words were those of Swami