Peter @pkra@mathstodon.xyz

this result will surprise literally nobody but it's still important

"Reviewer bias in single- versus double-blind peer review"

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/13/1707323114.short

spoilerssss: " ... single-blind reviewers are significantly more likely than their double-blind counterparts to recommend for acceptance papers from famous authors, top universities, and top companies. The estimated odds multipliers are tangible, at 1.63, 1.58, and 2.10, respectively."

😱

#science #noshit

Endlich wieder neue Visitenkarten!

Intuitive illustrations of possible control flows of a computer program. From Herman Goldstine and John von Neumann, _Planning and Coding of Problems for an Electronic Computing Instrument_, Part II, Volume 1 (1947).

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612375/using-wi-fi-to-see-behind-closed-doors-is-easier-than-anyone-thought/

Welcome to the new world.

If anyone here's looking for an #opensource project to contribute too, please, please, please consider supporting one of the many great screen readers that help #blind and #visuallyimpaired users enjoy a more open - and less money restricted) computing experience. Orca in particular: the Linux screen reader that is a great tool that gets less attention than it deserves. Also TalkBack for Android (Google's been making it awesome with updates, but the opensource version is years out of date).

Hi All,

I'm Ron. I work in a public library in Iowa and a MLIS student at Valdosta State (online). I would describe myself as a generalist. I bake bread, tinker with Linux, and watch TV in my free time.

Right now I'm interested in the idea of creating a Digital Community Archive at my public library. Kind of like a history archive, but also current stuff. I would really like to help rebuild my community which has been hollowing out my whole life.

#introductions

CDU plant Netflix für Bildung. http://bit.ly/2SYj6ak

if I'd got a mathematical object named after me before I double-barrelled my surname, maths would've become a little bit more case-sensitive than before ("Perfect doodad" ≠ "perfect doodad")

Are there any objects named after similarly surnamed people? Like, a Normal subgroup?

#math

For the crowd that only browses the web on weekdays: I wrote a bit over the weekend about the decline of the Mac.

“Seams, Stitches, And The Decline Of The Mac” https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2018/11/03/seams-stitches-and-the-decline-of-the-mac/

"I'm a human.
I'm not a robot.
Remember me."

(login screen poetry, via Twitter: https://twitter.com/pmrpr/status/1059062143407013888/photo/1)