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If you have any suggestions on how this site can improve, please leave a comment here.
In particular, feel free to comment on things like:
- How can we use this blog to help build our commuity? (For example, are there topics that you think we should discuss more?)
- Related to the above, are there categories that you think is interesting but I missed? (Currently, if your account can publish entries, then you can manage categories. But let’s first discuss about it before making the change since it can affect others.)
- What services do you you want, now that we have our own server? (For example, maybe you believe we should setup a wiki for some purpose that you see fit?)
- Right now, whenever a comment is posted, the original author will be notified by email. Do you think we should turn this feature off?
- Does this blog look good? (You can suggest other themes from here. Sometime over the summer I will see what I can do about it.)
22:04 on April 18th, 2005
I note that depot.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu does not exist yet. (It will.)
22:06 on April 18th, 2005
I am not allowed to post blog entries, right?
22:14 on April 18th, 2005
Actually you can already write entries and pages. Again, by default, once I see a Weanie register, I will grant the authoring rights.
Now for people outside of CMU, my feeling is that we should let people write too, once someone here vouch for their authorship.
10:08 on April 19th, 2005
Wohoo. I can post!!!
15:13 on April 19th, 2005
So far I also noticed that Ordered List doesn’t seem to work in the Wuhan – TicTac theme (you can’t see the item numbers).
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And inside a page (like the service guide) even Unordered List doesn’t work. Maybe we will switch to another theme later.
15:15 on April 19th, 2005
Now although TicTac is too broken and I don’t have time to fixed it, I tried the Almost Spring theme. It works quite well but it doesn’t show the author of an entry by default. Still working.
Another thing I like about TicTac is that it shows a calendar, but then it is not very useful right now (it would be wonderful if it can show events).
This, btw, is the TicTac site.
17:06 on April 19th, 2005
Can we add in Other Theory Blogs?
17:07 on April 19th, 2005
This url vanished from last comment: http://geomblog.blogspot.com/
17:42 on April 19th, 2005
Actually, you can also add the links yourself. Try clicking this.
(But then I have already added the link.)
Right now I am not populating the link section manually since this is a stupid O(n^2) way of doing things (imagine each blog has to add each other blog). There should be one syndication and I am figuring out if it is possible.
15:59 on April 20th, 2005
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17:05 on April 22nd, 2005
Thanks for putting this up. I found this via hunch.net. Suggestions:
1) I liked the pointer to the arXiv mailing list. More “little things” about being a grad student would be helpful. Maybe a post soliciting what people think are high-quality mailing lists or announcement lists to monitor? A wiki would work for this as well.
For my part, I subscribe to the ECCC announcement list, as well as the Institute for Advanced Study seminar announcement list, the NY metro area crypto announce list, the Berkeley theory mailing list & security seminar list, along with a few others. I also check eprint.iacr.org regularly, since it doesn’t seem to have an announcement list.
2) Conference reports, if anyone feels up to it. I find these useful for the cases when I can’t attend myself. You can learn a lot about where a subfield is going this way. Ideally you would see more ideas flowing across subfields as people become interested enough by the report to invest time in reading papers.
3) I was about to suggest “what are you reading,” but that feels a little dangerous sometimes. If I’m working on a problem, I may not want to announce that to the world just yet. Certainly posting what I’ve been reading recently might act as such an announcement inadvertantly. Not that everything I read is relevant to current problems…
-David Molnar
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