The new, new phobos sneak preview

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Lars Kyllingstad wrote:
> 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. :)

Thank you, this is very useful information.

Andrei