@AdamMarblestone In your website you mention a tool called 'Beagle'. Did it go anywhere? It bears a striking resemblance to Fermat's Library, which is still around
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Replying to @ArtirKel
It has gone nowhere. Really, it is a set of ideas of how something like http://Hypothes.is , but with a slicker UI/onboarding plus more social features, could be used by scientists. Reducing the bottleneck and increasing the dopamine for scientists annotating papers socially.
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Replying to @AdamMarblestone @ArtirKel
But I keep these docs online in the hopes that, like the backlinks or other lost features of Xanadu, it will one day inspire something better to be built and properly deployed. It may be that the idea is good but our weak attempt at execution was simply abortive.
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Replying to @AdamMarblestone @ArtirKel
Fermat’s library illustrates at least some of what could be cool about this. Why does every scientist not use it instead of Tweeting papers?
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Replying to @AdamMarblestone
Indeed! The social dimension of it is why the whole "tools for science" genre is a graveyard of exciting but dead projects. I can think of Mendeley, but they have the backing of Elsevier (I wonder how they went from nothing to be embedded in many departments as a goto tool)
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Replying to @ArtirKel
Exactly. I have yet to see a real success in this area at all, at the level that it would objectively merit. Twitter is the closest! (I at least have *used* Mendeley in groups for creating a goddamn reference list but not much more. & ShareLatex for writing.) Ok, SciHub = success
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Replying to @AdamMarblestone
This has some potential https://scite.ai/ but it's at a very baby stage at this point. I did a quick survey of various things https://nintil.com/fixing-science/ which of course is not comprehensive, I need to redo it
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Yes. Very cool. Incentives.
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