The Quantum Pontiff

The arxiv has added an API. Funny I was just complaining about the lack of an API.

Okay, so yeah, yeah, I’m going to blabber on about SciRate.com again. So if your one of those grumps who think that Digg is what you do in the dirt and MySpace refers to your own personsal space, you can stop reading now. For those of you who haven’t checked out SciRate.com recently, you might [...]

Jim points me to the fact that Nature has a new website call Precedings which is supposed to act like an arxiv for those not lucky enough to be physicists. Oh, and look you can vote for papers One interesting feature is you can put posters and presentations on the site as well. I’ve always [...]

I’ve added a new feature to Scirate.com: the ability to view the votes over differing timespans than just one day. Thus, for instance, you can now view all of the papers in the last month order by the number of votes. To get to these views, click on the view menu at the top of [...]

After fixing some of the broken features of Scirate.com I decided that it was time that I added a comment feature per paper to the website. So, yep, now you can comment away on any paper you want that is listed on Scirate.com. Note that you have to be registered to comment. Of course any [...]

I’ve always (not really ) dreamed of being in Physics Today (and not in the obituary section!), but I never imagined that when it happened I would be called a computer scientist! From Physics Today, Aprill 2007 edition, in the web watch box (sorry subscribers only!): Scirate Dave Bacon, a computer scientist at the University [...]

A new website of great interest to those of us punished under the crush of information in science, Academic Reader. Created by (I hope I have this right) Michael Nielsen, Peter Rhode, and Alexei Gilchrist the website is a way to manage your academic reading: The Academic Reader is a new web site that makes [...]