Fuck closed access academic journals are evils.

You are nothing but useless leeches in the Internet age.

You must go bankrupt all of you, ASAP.

Fuck Elsevier, fuck Springer, and fuck all the like.

Research paid with taxpayer money must be made available for free.

Researchers and reviewers all work for peanuts, while academic publishers get money for doing the work that an algorithm could do. OurBigBook.com.

When Ciro learned URLs such as www.nature.com/articles/181662a0 log you in automatically by IP, his mind blew! The level of institutionalization of this theft is off the charts! The institutionalization of theft is also clear from article prices, e.g. 32 dollars for a 5 page article.

Long live the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (2008).

Key physics papers from the 50's are still copyright encumbered as of 2020, see e.g. Lamb-Retherford experiment. Authors and reviewers got nothing for it. Something is wrong.

Infinite list of other people:

Short for Doctor of Philosophy, it's how some weird places like the University of Oxford say PhD. In Oxford they also analogously say MPHil.

Magazine of the Institute of Physics.

They do two things:

One of Ciro Santilli's selfish desires.

The author Ole Tange answers every question about it on Stack Exchange. What a legend!

This program makes you respect GNU make a bit more. Good old make with -j can not only parallelize, but also take in account a dependency graph.

Some examples under:

To get the input argument explicitly job number use the magic string {}, e.g.:sample output:

To get the job number use {#} as in:sample output:

{%} contains which thread the job running in, e.g. if we limit it to 2 threads with -j2:sample output:The percent must be a reference to "split the inputs module the number of workers", and modulo uses the % symbol in many programming languages such as C.

To pass multiple CLI arguments per command you can use -X e.g.:sample output:

Published as session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin.

Exams as a prerequisite for a degree are useless. Exams as part of a degree must be abolished. And degrees must be abolished. Ultimately the only metrics that really matter are money and fame. See also: motivation.

The only thing exams should matter for is as a screening tool to select people with specific abilities that you care about as an employer or principal investigator. If:then exams are useless for your purposes. then might as well just go by interviews (basically what all employers do already, though not PIs). Degrees are too course grained to mean anything to anybody. Employers and PIs likely only care about very few specific subjects.

Once the question of an exam has been formulated, the usefulness of the problem is already been completely destroyed, because formulating the problem that matters is the most important part of things. And any problem with an answer, is useless to put effort into: give answers.

Furthermore, preventing people from searching for answers while answering an exam, AKA preventing "cheating", also makes absolutely no sense. In the real world, we want people to find answers as quickly as possible! We should be teaching people how to "cheat"! What we should teach them instead is what a fucking license is, and what you have to do to comply with it.

And if you must absolutely have exams, they must be open to anyone who wants to applies. Then people have to pay to take the exam, with subsidies for "official course takers", who are spending 100x more anyways due to not living with their parents.

And if you pass the exam, you pass the course, without any further time requirements.

And those exams must be applied by professional test application companies to ensure no cheating and to factor out the anti-cheat work, while still making the tests available to people anywhere.

A quote from Richard Feynman present in the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman chapter O Americano, Outra Vez!:

The only metric that matters is "to feel that you've satisfied youre curiosity". When one studies for that, it can take a lot more time to actually learn everything, because it is sometimes not as clear when you should stop. But it is the only way to go deeper.

A person's understanding is the most illiquid asset that exists, to judge that based only on standardized exams, is a certain way to fail to identify top talent.

Related: exams and homework are useless, only projects matter