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1. Pingback from What is doing science like? « Entertaining Research on May 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am

   […] JoAnne at Cosmic Variance. […]

2. Christian on May 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 am

   Been there! You guys should start using version management. Adds a whole new level of complexity to writing a paper

3. Aaron Denney on May 2nd, 2007 at 4:38 am

   I would definitely concur that revision control, if you choose a good system, can help immensely. (Personally I like darcs or mercurial.)

4. Dave Andrews on May 2nd, 2007 at 5:38 am

   Are there any good revision control systems specifically designed to work with LaTeX? I’ve been trying to get by with a combination of SVN and latexdiff to show changes from one version to the next, but it’s far from elegant

5. Change Control Guy on May 2nd, 2007 at 8:07 am

   SVN may be the quickest one to setup, assuming that you all have ssh access into wherever you choose to be the master repository.

6. Pingback from Impressions of ArXiv identifiers and other random news « Symmetry factor on May 2nd, 2007 at 9:23 am

   […] random news May 2, 2007 Posted by apetrov in Near Physics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science. trackback It’s been a month since ArXiv.org, one of the main sources of information for particle,nuclear, astro and other physicists implemented new scheme to identify papers submitted there (and two weeks since my last post — finals as well as other matters). I guess the big idea behind changing the old scheme, when papers were identified by topic, year, month, and a number, say, arch-ive/YYMMNNN, to a new one was that the old one was not good enough for computers (as it was fine for most of the humans I know who use the archive). For example, it used to be that paper identified as hep-ph/0610039 simply meant that the paper in High Energy Physics - PHenomenology was submitted to archive in October 2006 and identified as paper number 39. The new scheme assigns identifiers as arXiv:YYMM.NNNNvV (see here for explanation of ArXiv labelling scheme). I wonder that if the new scheme is better for automatic classification, what was the point of introducing it at all, and not, say switch to DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers… In other words, I don’t know what subject class this paper belongs to just by looking at the archive number. Of course, this is not a big deal, as I can always download a paper and look to see what it is about, but for my colleague, say in Irkutsk, who sits on a modem line and pays for service by kilobyte, it might not be that easy… […]

7. janko on May 2nd, 2007 at 11:32 am

   cretivity always seems to come in bursts, so you gotta take the chance when it arrives (and when the deadlines call ofcourse

   I like the busy times better than the uninspired inbetweentimes though…

   Good luck!!

8. Quasar9 on May 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm

   Isn’t Nature just amazing
   One tomatoe seed and you get a tomatoe plant
   Each tomatoe from the plant full of seeds, each a potential plant
   I wonder what the universal limit on tomatoes on earth IS
   I’m sure they’ll be one of the first ‘plants’ to travel space - again(?)
   They’ll probably do well in a ‘greenhouse’ on the Moon and even on Mars

9. Kea on May 2nd, 2007 at 3:19 pm

   Sounds interesting! Good luck, and tell us about it soon.

10. B on May 2nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    tomato plants? very brave - I’ve given up on plants and only have artificial ones left… it hurts far less thinking of throwing them away with the next move.

11. Eric on May 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Look forward to seeing your paper. Any hints about the topic?

12. Pingback from Refuting nonlocal realism? « Quantum Quandaries on May 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    […] Refuting nonlocal realism? May 2, 2007 at 10:03 pm | In papers, Quantum, Experiment | Posting has been light of late. I would like to say this is due to the same sort of absorbtion that JoAnne has described over at Cosmic Variance, but in fact my attention span is currently too short for that and it has more to do with my attempts to work on three projects simultaneously. In any case, a report of an experiment on quantum foundations in Nature cannot possibly go ignored for too long on this blog. See here for the arXiv eprint. […]

13. Aaron Denney on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:38 am

    Are there any good revision control systems specifically designed to work with LaTeX? I’ve been trying to get by with a combination of SVN and latexdiff to show changes from one version to the next, but it’s far from elegant.

    Not to my knowledge. I’m not really aware of any revision-control systems tailored to a specific language. From your mention of latexdiff, I take it that you want to be able to see the differences in the compiled output, not just the source changes? I’ve never felt much need to do that, but it seems like it might be handy.

    My frustration has generally been with reformatting (e.g. rewrapping a paragraph after adding a sentence) introducing a lot of “spurious diffs”, due to the granularity being lines. There are ways around this, such as storing in a canonical form that breaks on whitespace, and reformatting on checkout, but that will lose formatting which can be very important when reading.

14. Pingback from Middle School Science for the Future! » Blog Archive » This IS what science is like! on May 7th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    […] I was reading the blog Cosmic Variance and came across this post called Absorbed in which the author apologizes for not posting recently due to her utter absorption in her current work.  Below I am including a quote from the blog which I found illuminating: This IS what science is like! When you get so caught up and so excited about something, that literally everything else in life gets put on hold. I’m very excited about this paper, and want to do my best job! I have 3 collaborators, 2 on East coast time, and one in Hawaii. Two of us are in charge of the master text file – me and a collaborator on the East Coast. He is a morning person and works on the file from 8 EDT until mid-afternoon. That means around 10 AM PDT he ships the file to me and I start my day, working until about midnight. Comments from the other 2 collaborators are coming in at all hours at a rapid pace. This means that the collaboration is literally working round the clock! We have a system set up, so we don’t get confused and mix up the “master file” for our paper. It hasn’t failed us yet… […]

15. Pablo on May 17th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    Thanks for sharing this special moment with us! I’m right now working on a paper for my PhD thesis, and even when unfortunately I’m not doing it in such a pasionate and intese way as you, I found your post very inspirational . . . actualy, I’m going back to work on my stuff

16. Pingback from Finally, it is done! « Symmetry factor on May 26th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    […] or so. Indeed, this is related to the end-of-the-semester business. But mainly I was very much absorbed by writing this paper… And, finally, it was submitted to the preprint ArXiv on Thursday […]

17. Pingback from Nobel Fashion Police | Cosmic Variance on Oct 19th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    […] for the meager posting of late. I’m in one of those phases with papers that are justthatclose to being done, and have to concentrate on pushing them out the […]

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