Comments on: Progress Report: Beautifying Equations http://djstrouse.com/progress-report-beautifying-equations/ the rantings of a baby scientist Sat, 05 May 2012 10:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: djstrouse http://djstrouse.com/progress-report-beautifying-equations/comment-page-1/#comment-444 djstrouse Sat, 29 May 2010 22:43:12 +0000 http://djstrouse.com/?p=647#comment-444 Oh and thanks for the offer though! With the current projects I'm working on, I'm quickly becoming a Mathematica power user, so I'm sure you're expertise will be helpful in the future. Oh and thanks for the offer though! With the current projects I’m working on, I’m quickly becoming a Mathematica power user, so I’m sure you’re expertise will be helpful in the future.

]]> By: djstrouse http://djstrouse.com/progress-report-beautifying-equations/comment-page-1/#comment-442 djstrouse Sat, 29 May 2010 22:38:26 +0000 http://djstrouse.com/?p=647#comment-442 My undergrad naivety has too been shattered. It turned out that the authors had a significant typo in their equations and they've since corrected it. Just as when I was three I assumed my dad was near God-like in his knowledge of the world, I always thought scientific papers were... right. Or at least if they were wrong, they expressed some kind of uncertainty ("We <em>think</em> this is what's going on"). Nay! Its looking like theres plenty of stuff in papers thats just plain wrong. This speaks to the importance of two things: (1) open peer review and (2) providing code/calculations to back up any claims made in a paper. My undergrad naivety has too been shattered. It turned out that the authors had a significant typo in their equations and they’ve since corrected it.

Just as when I was three I assumed my dad was near God-like in his knowledge of the world, I always thought scientific papers were… right. Or at least if they were wrong, they expressed some kind of uncertainty (“We think this is what’s going on”). Nay! Its looking like theres plenty of stuff in papers thats just plain wrong.

This speaks to the importance of two things: (1) open peer review and (2) providing code/calculations to back up any claims made in a paper.

]]> By: Taliesin Beynon http://djstrouse.com/progress-report-beautifying-equations/comment-page-1/#comment-439 Taliesin Beynon Sat, 29 May 2010 20:57:11 +0000 http://djstrouse.com/?p=647#comment-439 Send me your notebook? I'm quite a Mathematica hand these days. Errors in published papers are not all the uncommon, much more frequent than I, as a starry-eyed undergraduate, would have expected. While peer review is a brilliant idea, in practice it seems there isn't always enough time to review things as closely as one should. Send me your notebook? I’m quite a Mathematica hand these days. Errors in published papers are not all the uncommon, much more frequent than I, as a starry-eyed undergraduate, would have expected. While peer review is a brilliant idea, in practice it seems there isn’t always enough time to review things as closely as one should.

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