Lots of news about the Chris Monroe’s group teleporting between ions in different traps.
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Quantum Open Notebook
Sir Tobias Osborne of the Quantum Boolean Functions has made the plunge and is trying out open notebook science: Tobias J. Osborne’s Research Notes.
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Paper Reviewing Ratio
A long time ago, in a blog far far away, I ran a small poll about paper refereeing. The poll asked “What is your ratio of reviewed to submitted manuscripts?”. The results were
- >=6 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 7 votes (8 percent)
- 5 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 3 votes (4 percent)
- 4 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 9 votes (10 percent)
- 3 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 12 votes (14 percent)
- 2 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 13 votes (15 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every 1 submitted: 20 votes (24 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every 2 submitted: 6 votes (7 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every 3 submitted: 5 votes (6 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every 4 submitted: 2 votes (2 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every 5 submitted: 0 votes (0 percent)
- 1 reviewed for every >=6 submitted: 7 votes (8 percent)
This works out to an average 2.2 papers reviewed for every one submitted.
But the question I didn’t ask is what should your ratio of reviewed (refereed) to submitted be?
Book Reviews
State of the ?
Amusing line from a New York Times article this morning:
“Are you aware under what conditions I worked in 1996?” he said by telephone from Mexico. “It’s only because of my lawsuit that you or anybody else can pick up a tape. In those days, I could not leave the archives with that material. I used state-of-the-lost-art equipment. I brought in a team of court reporters to help me with the first drafts.
State-of-the-lost-art? He used a telephonoscope?