{"id":3813,"date":"2009-06-27T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/27\/links-for-2009-06-27\/"},"modified":"2009-06-27T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T05:00:49","slug":"links-for-2009-06-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/27\/links-for-2009-06-27\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-06-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=666615\">Hacker News | I was a theoretical physicist for 13 years, and struggled a lot with this questi&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;One unusual but very useful style was to set a goal like reading 15 papers in 3 hours. I use the term &quot;reading&quot; here in an unusual way. Of course, I don&#8217;t mean understanding everything in the papers. Instead, I&#8217;d do something like this: for each paper, I had 12 minutes to read it. The goal was to produce a 3-point written LaTeX summary of the most important material I could extract: usually questions, open problems, results, new techniques, or connections I hadn&#8217;t seen previously. When time was up, it was onto the next paper. A week later, I&#8217;d make a revision pass over the material, typically it would take an hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>I found this a great way of rapidly getting an overview of a field, understanding what was important, what was not, what the interesting questions were, and so on. In particular, it really helped identify the most important papers, for a deeper read.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/flock-part-two-twitter-and-the-news-cycle-perfect-together\/\">\u00e2\u0080\u00a6My heart\u00e2\u0080\u0099s in Accra \u00c2\u00bb Twitter and the news cycle, perfect together<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;A proper quote from me would probably have been something like: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe search string \u00e2\u0080\u0098Michael Jackson\u00e2\u0080\u0099 is getting intense interest on Twitter at the moment, showing up in between 13-20% of tweets. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s unlikely this level of intensity will continue through the night, but at the moment, it exceeds the intensity I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve seen on Twitter during slower-breaking stories like #swineflu, #pman and #IranElection.\u00e2\u0080\u009d That, unfortunately, is 337 characters &#8211; far too long for anyone to read anymore. And a clarification in the form of a blogpost? That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s so 2006.&quot;m<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/zuckerman\">zuckerman<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacker News | I was a theoretical physicist for 13 years, and struggled a lot with this questi&#8230; &quot;One unusual but very useful style was to set a goal like reading 15 papers in 3 hours. I use the term &quot;reading&quot; here in an unusual way. Of course, I don&#8217;t mean understanding everything in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/27\/links-for-2009-06-27\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-06-27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}