I know this is an absurd proposition, but… is there a really good reason why CS shouldn’t just have its own preprint server? It’s a humongous portion of the arXiv usage now, brings a lot of the traffic that takes the site down, and seems like there should be means of independently supporting it…

But only for reviews and “position papers”, and only in CS. I think for most of us it’s good news that arXiv is taking proactive steps to keep the site working.

Any idea the reason for this change? Was it forecasted at all? It’s a surprise for me…

On a Mac it’s just option+shift+hyphen (or just option+hyphen for an en-dash rather than em-dash)

Who gave the talk? There have been several claims of this nature in the past few years (and long before that, I’m sure), which all seem loosely related, but I don’t think much of the community is convinced by any of them

The number of awards was cut way down (in half?) last cycle, but there were still awards given in Biology: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Forgoing the chance to do a comment on a comment on a comment 😕

This is such a profoundly mean thing to say (not disagreeing with you)

Footnote 1 is brutal.

Yeah, we touched down at 6:05 CT. Just got off the plane a few minutes ago.

Does Khan have any idea what a graduate student is lol

Yeah haha, lots of these critics all have some things in common… though examining the sociological/incentive structures in the field is still worthwhile.

I suppose definitions of “breakthroughs” in hep-th can differ, but any definition that excludes AdS/CFT seems… fraught 😅

Might have to give it a read, but it seems hard to take it seriously when the basic premise seems just… obviously wrong? 50 years?

Except in this case there’s only one experiment (CMD-3) that agrees with the g-2 measurement and the lattice HVP, while all the other e+e- measurements are very off — clearly there is some physics missing… Not sure if it could plausibly be BSM or not, but who knows?

Postdoctoral student? 🤨