Hello to all opencarers. This is the (really) last call to @ezio_manzini and @melancon. If it goes unheeded, I will interpret it as a “no” and move on.
We have two unfinished opencare papers, waiting for your contributions since quite some time. They will wither and die very soon unless you rescue them. I respectfully suggest that they have been in the queue long enough, and so have we, your co-authors.
Fortunately, not much work is needed to finish them. Guy can do it in 2-3 days at most. Ezio might need 4-6 days, as he is the principal author. Can you please get on to it this week?
Dear Alberto and dear opencarers, sadly I must say that I cannot do it.
I will not try to justify myself. Another time my optimism (on the
possibility of doing things) crashed with the reality (of the messiness
of my nomadic life).
@markomanka and @winnieponcelet, I was never meant to be a co-author of the Ezio paper. I am just not equipped for it. So, unless someone else steps up as lead author, I guess that paper is lost.
@melancon has been in touch privately, saying he and @jason_vallet will get on with the SSNA paper. Once they do their part, I can finish that one. Guy, Jason, can you commit to a deadline?
@markomanka for me too. Would it be good to have a short videocall within this week? The last update i had with @ezio_manzini was about connecting theory to case studies given the differences between communities of interest and goal oriented communities.
Not sure about The Connected Past, @markomanka. Certainly we do not have the kind of data that are central to the conference. Maybe they could use the methodology… @amelia, you are in Oxford. Any thoughts?
Agreed here – our subject matter isn’t the deep past stuff that they are looking for. Though it’s a shame as it’d be very easy for me to attend/present
Hi guys, I had a stab at wrapping up the OpenCare paper. I only need a few things:
@markomanka I did some editing, including to section 4.3 (yours). My goal was to have shorter sentences and simpler syntax. Doing this, I found something I don’t understand. You write:
It descends from the above that an empirical divergence can be computed from compression \cite{Merh93} that would suit the requirements of a universal classifier.
A divergence between what and what else? What is a universal classifier?
@markomanka I do not understand items 2 and 3 on page 10. Maybe we should have a call?
The work of comparing different methods to reduce the graph I started with @melancon and @jason_vallet is not finished, but I think we have waited too long and we should submit now.
@melancon had proposed Social Science Computer Review - I think we chose this also based on the Editorial board (for anthro: Michael Fischer. Rings a bell?). This is also why I am asking you to review for a right “hi-tech anthro” gloss. Failing that, a new journal, the Journal of Computational Social Science. See here. Social networks obviously attractive, again Guy will have a better sense of how good a fit that it.
