The new, new phobos sneak preview

[Lars Kyllingstad]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> For even bigger data you may use muds:
>> "On the Complexity of Processing Massive, Unordered, Distributed 
>> Data", by Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, 
>> Cliff Stein, Zoya Svitkina:
>> http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CC/0611108
> 
> I've developed a skepticism towards arxiv.org. My understanding is that 
> it's not high-quality so a paper that only appears of it is highly 
> questionable.
> 
> Andrei

I'm not sure how it is in CS, but at least in physics, *everything* is 
posted on arXiv -- papers, talks, lectures, etc. Since it (usually) 
takes quite a while to get a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, 
it allows for rapid communication of research results. For each paper on 
arXiv there is a "journal-ref" field that can be filled in when the 
paper is quality-assured and published.

Another nice thing about arXiv is that it's free. Scientific journals 
usually require subscriptions -- expensive ones, at that, normally paid 
for by university libraries. Therefore, when I want to send someone a 
link to a paper of mine, I usually direct them to the arXiv version, 
since then I'm sure they can actually read it.

So I guess my point is: don't diss arXiv. :)

-Lars