mandor

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by mandor 5y ago
Provide examples of uses of words and possibly help us rephrase in a more idiomatic way. Basically, answer "how do people use this word usually?" A bit like linguee but for scientists: (at the bottom of the page): https:/&#x
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by mandor 5y ago
We're doing exactly this to teleoperate humanoid robots on high-latency networks! Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01281 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3u4ot3aIyQ "We introduce a sy
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by mandor 6y ago
Related (not historic stuffs necessarily): https://www.softwareheritage.org/
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by mandor 6y ago
Here is an open-source, 3D-printable quadruped with (almost) direct-drive actuation: https://open-dynamic-robot-initiative.github.io Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00093.pdf Videos: https://ww
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by mandor 7y ago
we are also happy with waf, wich gives us a lot of flexibility (e.g., use python libs that are not build-related) and use a language that the team already know. ( https://waf.io )
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by mandor 8y ago
Gaussian Processes are very good when you do not have much data (< 500 points) and and your data are low-dimensional (<10 dimensions). For this, they are more accurate than anything else, and they provide both a prediction and varianc
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by mandor 8y ago
Most journals are OK with authors posting a paper on their own website, especially the 'pre-print' (pre-review, pre-layout). See: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php (even Nature is OK for all the pre-pri
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by mandor 8y ago
This is the "net" of a senior researcher (very competitve position, people are about 35-40 year old, about 10-15 years after a good PhD) in public institutions (see http://www.emploitheque.org/grille-indiciaire-eta
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by mandor 9y ago
My definition: there is no clear limit, but there is a spectrum of ‘roboticity’ that corresponds to the spectrum of ‘versatility’. The more versatile a machine is, the more a robot it is. For instance, a blender is not versatile. But a cook
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by mandor 9y ago
... or more than 100 top French researchers for 3 years (Research Director, top pay at the end of the career is about 6000 euros / ~10000 for the company). [source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directeur_de_reche
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by mandor 10y ago
check also iceSL, which is developped with 3D printing in mind: https://members.loria.fr/Sylvain.Lefebvre/icesl/
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by mandor 10y ago
PDF: http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201310...
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by mandor 10y ago
Original article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239
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by mandor 10y ago
The actual rule for European grant (H2020) is "either publish in open-access or put the paper on arxiv or similar archives". We can still publish in non-open access journals provided that we put the paper on an open access reposit
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by mandor 10y ago
In H2020 projects (EU projects), the maximum embargo that can be "tolerated" is 6 months (then it has to be on arxiv) [12 months for social sciences]. However, all journals are OK with an arxiv post of the submitted (pre-review) m
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by mandor 10y ago
Nature (and the vast majory of journals) is OK with posting on arxiv the pre-review manuscript, but not the post-review (ie, with the changes made after the comments by the reviewers) and not the version they edited (and added their page la
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by mandor 10y ago
Most of the robots in the manufacturing industry are following a pre-set sequence. Why do we call them a robot whereas most people would not call a dishwasher a robot? I think what we (as a society) call a robot is a machine that has some d
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by mandor 11y ago
We discuss a lot on mailing lists, live in conferences, and with personnal e-mails.
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Interviews: Big ideas for better science(nature.com)
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by mandor 11y ago
By finding an existing system that shares common properties with the academic system but in which there is no competition for prestige. I don't know, maybe documentation writing? Or classified papers?
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by mandor 11y ago
In France (and I suspect in many European countries), most modern buildings/renovated buildings have large mailbox in which many packages fit (e.g. books). The mailman has a 'universal key' and drop the packages there.
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by mandor 11y ago
A while ago, Internet was about people sharing things, freely. And it was an interesting place! Not all the content has to be written by professional writers and a lot of code is actually written for free by volunteers...
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by mandor 11y ago
As a scientist, I am most efficient when I skim with a goal . Typically, I would search for an answer to a very specific question (related to my own research) and just ignore whole parts of the book/article.
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by mandor 11y ago
4. The grant agencies (e.g. the NSF) could use some of its money to pay some labs to reproduce the study during the end-of-grant review process, in the same way as it already pays reviewers and committees for the initial review process. Thi
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by mandor 11y ago
> Why can't people simply publish negative results? In addition to the other comments: because a negative result is usually much more likely than a negative one, it is very hard to be sure that the experimenter did not simply screw
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by mandor 11y ago
... and we still need to understand what these "costs of peer review" are! We are never paid for reviewing papers and most editors work for free. There is free software to handle the peer review process (e.g. http://myr
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by mandor 11y ago
> I also don't like it but the paper needs be printed and reviewed. - Reviews are always free (nobody gets paid for reviewing academic paper, in contrast to grant proposal for which we are sometimes paid) - I have not seen a print
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by mandor 11y ago
... with a 6 months embargo (at best).
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by mandor 11y ago
Also: do not let the Uni PR office write the press release. Write it yourself and insist they use yours.
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by mandor 11y ago
A good thing that we did for our last paper [1]: we have set up a FAQ [2] with the most common questions (we updated the FAQ when we received new questions). Thanks to the FAQ, the journalists do not "invent" too much and they hav

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