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Tim Head

Wild Tree Tech

22 June 2016

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Science makes progress when ...

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... yesterday’s Nobel Prize becomes boring.

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The Nobel Prize for physics is in this year given forthe invention of the maser and the laser.

— B. Edlén, 1964

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This year’s Nobel prize in physics is shared between three scientists - Nicolaas Bloembergenand Arthur Schawlow, both from the United States, and Kai Siegbahn from Sweden - for their

contributions to the development of two important spectroscopic methods - laserspectroscopy and electron spectroscopy.

— Ingvar Lindgren, 1981

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize forPhysics jointly to three physicists for ”development of methods to cool and trap atoms with

laser light”.

— Bengt Nagel, 1997

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Science makes progress whenyesterday’s Nobel Prize becomes boring.

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... but why?

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Diversity!

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Solution: publish everything!

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The Narrativejournals, pre-prints, blogs, ....

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The Codegithub + zenodo

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The Datafigshare, re3data, zenodo, ...

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The Environment?

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The Environment!

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The Environment!In the form of a Dockerfile

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Demosourmash - https://github.com/dib-lab/sourmash

LIGO - https://github.com/minrk/ligo-binder

Machine-learning - http://betatim.github.io/posts/stop-ensemble-growth-early/

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Interjection: Training

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Prototyping Solutions

Binder Everware Everpub

Advertising: I work on two of these, they are open-source, join us!

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What is it good for?

• Attempting to reuse other people’s work becomes cheap again• Alternative metrics for research impact• The Interactive Publication• Open-source philosophy applied to science

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Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes.

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Tim Head tim@wildtreetech.com

betatim betatim

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