Live, hot, via Bill Zajc: at 5 pm CERN wintertime fourth dimension – eleven am Boston wintertime fourth dimension – Sam Ting volition study "unexpected results" from the 5 years of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. See an abstract of the CERN colloquium, video page, a separate "camera" video window, previous AMS spider web log posts. I am a flake excited but last careful: Ting expected to brand a big regain thence "unexpected results" may hateful that he didn't regain anything interesting. ;-) Ting speaks inwards Chinglish which I sympathize well, likely because it's a dialect of Czenglish.At the move yesteryear of arXiv.org, the principal scientific e-archive of preprints serving primarily high unloose energy physics in addition to other fields, you lot may read some occasional news.
For example, since 2017, the daily deadline for submissions volition last changed to 2 pm, local New York fourth dimension (either criterion or daylight-saving, whichever is valid at the moment). So when you're competing for the commencement or terminal set amid the papers inwards the listings, don't forget virtually this change.
Also, the Alfred P. Sloan foundation is paying some $445,000 for software piece of work that should modernize arXiv.org over the next iii years. After the upgrade, arXiv should instruct arXiv-NG – banking concern annotation that ST-NG stands for "Star Trek – Next Generation".
In the early on 1990s, Paul Ginsparg's arXiv was a useful technological advance. In the 1980s, secretaries would often type papers (drafts) for the physicists, using quondam typewriters etc. Suddenly, \(\rm\TeX\) appeared in addition to physicists could hit it themselves, amongst prettier results. The newspaper journals were nonetheless of import around 1990. Physicists would nonetheless similar to run across papers of their colleagues earlier they're sent to journals. So they were sending papers to each other yesteryear e-mail. Cliques in addition to mailing lists of such physicists developed.
See a New York Times article virtually some background on the arXiv. The article started amongst 2 rather fundamental words LOL.
This physical care for was automatized in addition to collectivized yesteryear Paul Ginsparg who created a primal mechanism to collect in addition to resend the papers inwards \(\rm\TeX\). It was done using state-of-the-art sharing information technology technologies. So in that place was only an FTP server at some moment. Then it got an access yesteryear Gopher. And people could accept received the daily listing of abstracts via email mailing lists. I don't know how many people retrieve the pre-web Internet of the early on 1990s but I sure as shooting do. I was accessing Ginsparg's archive yesteryear FTP clients (haven't used those for many years) every bit good every bit Gopher. And when the spider web was discovered, I was nonetheless using Lynx – a text-based spider web browser – rather frequently.
At whatsoever rate, things switched to the spider web amongst graphics-enhanced browsers inwards the mid 1990s. I mean value that if a younger semi-informed someone is asked virtually the oldest browsers, he could tell "Mozilla" or "Firefox". Well, that's unopen but non quite. Both of these names are rather recent. The oldest modern spider web browsers were related but called NCSA Mosaic in addition to Netscape Navigator. Netscape Navigator is basically a straight predecessor of Mozilla Firefox – it's funny how the names were changing thence that you lot can't run across the human relationship anymore.
The arXiv.org (previously named xxx.lanl.gov yesteryear Ginsparg because he wanted the airdrome safety to mean value that physicists spotter porn all the time, fifty-fifty at the airports; but he claims that "xxx" was only an innocent parody of "www") was serving good in addition to is nonetheless serving well. But you lot can't overlook that it hasn't been modernized for 25 years – if you lot overlook some nestling changes.
The grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation should modernize the "search function", we're told. I am distressing for beingness afraid that I would likely fence that $445,000 for a novel search engine for arXiv.org is a theft. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 much to a greater extent than ambitious modernization should last planned, realized, in addition to paid for.
After all, the arXiv's ain "search function" is thence bad that I am – in addition to many people certainly are – using real dissimilar ways to search for the papers. For a total text search, it's likely optimal to exercise Google. You may limit Google searches to arXiv.org. For example, this is the interrogation that searches for "screwing string theory", the unscrewed holler of what is known every bit "matrix string theory". Google, the search engine, is placing the relevant hits at the move yesteryear in addition to the calculation of the relevance is really the "top advance" that helped to plough Google into a move yesteryear 3 capitalized companionship inwards the world.
Sometimes, you lot desire to search for scientific discipline papers, whether they are on the arXiv or not. I mean value that Google Scholar has instruct optimal for all these things. Try screwing string theory from that perspective. It naturally lists the papers yesteryear relevance – which is highly correlated amongst the citation count. Cool, for the commencement time, I noticed a newspaper that has really used my term "screwing procedure". Or did I forget? At whatsoever rate, goodness job, Okuyama in addition to Sugawara. ;-)
And in addition to thence there's INSPIREhep.net, previously known every bit SPIRES. I mean value that it doesn't search through the trunk of papers. Update: Oops, fulltext search is possible inwards INSPIRE, an example, thank you lot to INSPIRE twitter in addition to mmanu_F for the fix.
I detect it obvious that the search functions should last rather Google-like. But I hit mean value that a modernization of the archive organisation may desire to conk good beyond a improve search function. For example, a personalization organisation that knows how to detect the relevant newspaper for a item user should last developed, along amongst some undistracting methods to communicate amongst the authors (Facebook-like or less social methods) – possibly amongst tools to filter people who are non eligible, methods to peacefully block others from communication, ratings, expert-based recommended hyperlinks, conversion of all \(\rm \TeX\) newspaper to HTML amongst MathJax, in addition to many other things.
Skillful programmers who are up-to-date could hit lots of genuinely wonderful things.
One must realize that the sum of information hosted yesteryear the arXiv is only slightly over i million. If the average newspaper had a megabyte, I don't know the value exactly, you lot could nonetheless re-create the whole arXiv to your laptop's difficult disk. Well, Joanna Karczmarek was i time distributing a 10-GB file amongst all the HEP preprints in addition to it's such a decade agone addition something. There's a lot of room for "redundant" things surrounding each paper. The capacity of disks in addition to RAM chips has grown much to a greater extent than rapidly than the scientists' mightiness to hit papers, of course.
Maybe some skillful students should play amongst their mini-model of the arXiv. And if the upgrade to arXiv-NG turns out to last disappointing, they should advise a feasible choice to the community. But don't instruct excessively excited. Various modified arXivs – e.g. those amongst an extra word thread nether each abstract – accept been unsuccessful.