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A New Academic Journal Publishing Platform
For the last year I’ve been working on a new platform for publishing an open access academic journal. This is specifically motivated by the journal Communications in Cryptology, but ideally I’d like it to be useful for any journal that … Continue reading
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Why do we have volumes, issues, and page numbers?
Now that almost all academic publishing has moved online, there are a lot of assumptions that start to look silly with time. The whole notion of a “Periodical” doesn’t make much sense. Traditionally it meant articles that were bound together … Continue reading
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Why do we restrict the length on publications?
I recently saw a suggestion from Bo-Yin Yang on eliminating the references as counting toward a page limit on publications from IACR conferences. That strikes me as a great idea, and consistent with what other societies are doing. On the … Continue reading
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Experimenting with the fediverse
I continue to experiment with using the fediverse, but I haven’t hit on one that I like. The discoverability of content in mastodon is – well – miserable. The lack of federated search strikes me as a case of the … Continue reading
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On peer review in academic publications
A friend of mine recently reviewed a number theory paper that is over 100 pages long. He found a critical error on page 52 that may invalidate the main result of the paper. This raises the question of what the … Continue reading
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ActivityPub
I’ve been reading a bit about ActivityPub and fiddling around with implementing some things. In doing so I’ve discovered that the standard was unfinished. There is a client-to-server part that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and a lot … Continue reading
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An attempt at getting back to blogging
Once social networks took off, the concept of blogging seemed less compelling. Now that the birdsite has descended into hell, I figured I’d investigate ActivityPub as an alternative. There are many ways to try this, including directly using mastodon or … Continue reading
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Another proposition 13?
I was amused to hear from my daughter that King county in Seattle is experiencing large increases in property taxes – in much the same way that California was experiencing rapidly rising property taxes during the 1970, which led to … Continue reading
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An analysis of why Trump was elected
Summary of a long post: politics to follow. Move on if it isn’t your thing. In trying to understand how the USA arrived at the shitshow that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent, I’ve started reading alternative news sources … Continue reading
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Time until Linux desktop failure measured in minutes
It took less than an hour of usage. The error was in bluetooth, which is not surprising I guess.
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