As a physics grad student, I'd love an aggregation site (like Digg, Reddit, or HN) which had the quality of discussion of HN but with a focus on academics instead of IT and startups.
I'd love this to reach a critical mass, but I doubt it.
yep (you can see link to pligg.com at bottom of phygg.com)...
two research groups are starting to use it, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UZH and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, so it's more for HNers who are interested in (astro)physics at the research level to check out/use. we're adding interesting papers (cutting edge, fresh off arXiv.org) daily.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 68.7 ms ] threadI'd love this to reach a critical mass, but I doubt it.
but in this case it only has to reach a critical mass within a research group (yours) for it to be useful (http://www.phygg.com/phygg/groups.php).
(It's 'f*ck' in german.)
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1908/physics
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vs.
http://phygg.com Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sersic model 5 votes
the latter is more useful for people actually doing research.
source: http://www.pligg.com/
two research groups are starting to use it, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UZH and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, so it's more for HNers who are interested in (astro)physics at the research level to check out/use. we're adding interesting papers (cutting edge, fresh off arXiv.org) daily.