{"id":618,"date":"2004-04-21T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T14:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=618"},"modified":"2004-04-21T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T14:52:51","slug":"publish-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/04\/21\/publish-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2004\/04\/21\/stephenson_4\/\">an interview<\/a> with Neal Stephenson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hooke, for example, when he figured out how arches work, published it as an anagram. He condensed the idea into this pithy statement: &#8220;The ideal form of an arch is the form of a chain hanging, flipped upside down.&#8221; Then he scrambled the letters to make an anagram and published it. That way, he wasn&#8217;t giving away the secret, but if somebody came along a few years later and claimed that they&#8217;d invented it, he could just unscramble what he&#8217;d published. He was establishing precedence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How long until someone publishes a paper on the <a href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\">arXiv<\/a> which is just noise and then, after some major result appears, says &#8220;No, I did this a long time ago, and here is the key which unscrambles my paper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with Neal Stephenson: Hooke, for example, when he figured out how arches work, published it as an anagram. He condensed the idea into this pithy statement: &#8220;The ideal form of an arch is the form of a chain hanging, flipped upside down.&#8221; Then he scrambled the letters to make an anagram and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/04\/21\/publish-noise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish Noise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}