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Knowledge is like an irregular blob. (thanks due to Jon Awbrey for the following quote) Thus, what looks to us like a sphere of scientific knowledge more accurately should be represented as the inside of a highly irregular and spiky object, like a pincushion or porcupine, with very sharp extensions in certain directions, and virtually […]
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Democratic changes in OA can be only reactive. That means one step back with respect to active opposition to change, methodically pursued by interests of a small but powerful minority of big players in the publishing game (i.e. publishers themselves and their academic management friends, sometimes overlapping). And even more, one might say that democratic […]
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Yes, graphic lambda calculus has a freedom sector. Which means in that sector you can do anything you like (modulo some garbage, though). It’s yet not clear to me if this means a kind of universality property of graphic lambda calculus. The starting point is the procedure of packing arrows explained in this post. This […]
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What happens in the real world, the one of the powers that be, as concerns open access, peer-review and communication of research results? Let’s see. The good: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Funding agencies, institutions that employ scientists, and scientists themselves, all have a desire, and need, to assess the quality and impact […]
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Suppose that we want to group together three arrows in graphic lambda calculus. We have this: We want to group them together such that later, by performing graphic beta moves, the first arrow available to be 11′, then 22′, then 33′. Moreover, we want to group the arrows such that we don’t have to make […]
