My response to any new administrative task: I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
Great news. I can't imagine a higher ROI investment to advance scientific research. Kudos to the NSF and the Simons Foundation for seeing the enormous value of what the arXiv provides us all.
Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution serv...
This is interesting and important but not very novel. NASA has etire programs that make use of that idea to potential search for simple live in fly by missions looking for gases severely out of thermochemical redox equilibrium. For example here www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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