Sloppy Research

Sloppiness is good when you're part of a leaky network.

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Entertainment

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• research
• leaky
• network
• distributed
• intelligence
• knowledge

[ptocologist]

While I like the idea of transparent and public research, I'm not sure I agree that the academic environment is all that isolated. Perhaps it's just me or the American system, but while working on my dissertation I often share my emerging ideas with advisors, peers, and friends, and I don't feel isolated. While I don't want to do it too much since these people are already very busy, I feel the academic community provides a decent feedback and collaboration method for me...

[conferencereport]

@ptocologist I agree, there usually are ways of finding support within academia. I suppose my particular interest is in opening up research processes to the wider world.

[1life1chance1986]

everything should be peer reviewed.

[conferencereport]

@1life1chance1986 Everything? Including this comment? Are we peers? Is this a review?

[zezt]

does my head in when yu read stuff and every other sentence has an authors name in brackets

[conferencereport]

@zezt Yeah, I know what you mean (conferencereport 2010)

[conferencereport]

@yeahwotevaman Academics talk complete shite 95% of the time (as I know from personal experience) but most of that is hidden away and only the polished turds see publication. I think that gives completely the wrong idea about how creative thinking works. Personally I think this medium lends its well to the development of ideas between people, as well as the more combative to and fro of critique. Shoot a half-baked steamer in my direction and I'll see if I can help shape it.

[Taberham]

This was really liberating to listen to Fred, thanks a lot. I'll not follow suit just yet (because I don't think I'm ready), but I intend to eventually. And I hope what you're doing becomes a 'trend' amongst scholars (unless it already is and i didn't realise?)

If you don't mind my asking, are you including your youtube page in your research portfolio? Or does it remain a separate 'project'?

[SentientRaven]

Worthy thoughts for every generation!

[MrBranboom]

More communication, less pretense! It has it's place!

[U5312N4M34Y0UTU133]

@almafarag A collective medium that covers every aspect of every cognition, is complete assimilation. It's not giving people a chance to form individual thoughts. Privacy is a form of security against fault.

[TheInsaneBastard]

Sir, you are truly a noble fellow.

[lucerfarul]

Oh, and I am also gaining a better appreciation and understanding (apologies to feminism) for why Mozart's Don Giovanni was courageously unrepentant in the face of certain damnation.

So much for a high-school drop out... damn my emulation of the Byronic hero! It's so self-destructive!

[lucerfarul]

I'll let my guard down for you... I think I'm closing in on the "Riddle of the Windmill" in literature. The metaphor keeps on popping up in a lot of classics and it all "revolves" around the mechanization of labour.

Back to the chase!

[1life1chance1986]

@conferencereport your every comment is being read, reviewed and recorded.