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Re: Interesting article in Nature [message #83021 is a reply to message #83018]

Thu, 31 January 2013 07:21

Russell Ryan
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I generally acknowledge the "tool" in professional papers if the tool is either non-standard (like I've developed some optimization routines in IDL) or am using non-standard settings of standard routines. In some cases the author(s) of the code(s) publish papers on them, so citing my source is easy. But in the case of IDL, I generally just say something like: "... for this we implement [some algorithm] in IDL\footnote{GIVE EXELIS URL}..." Though, I've never published in Nature...

On Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:15:17 AM UTC-5, Mark Piper wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:24:09 PM UTC-7, Paulo Penteado wrote:
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>> "The algorithms to be incorporated were varied, and included codes for
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>> by dust and black carbon. They had been written in IDL, a specialized
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>> as Google’s MapReduce model.
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>> But, in my experience, there is no need to rewrite scientific
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>> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/493473a
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> Thank you, Paulo, for linking to this article. I love to post articles such as this internally at VIS to try to help people understand how and why IDL is important to us who use it.
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		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: penteado on Thu, 31 January 2013 13:26
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Russell Ryan on Thu, 31 January 2013 07:21
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Mark Piper on Thu, 31 January 2013 07:15
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Mark Piper on Thu, 31 January 2013 06:56
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: lecacheux.alain on Thu, 31 January 2013 02:33
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: Fabzi on Thu, 31 January 2013 01:38
		Re: Interesting article in Nature By: penteado on Fri, 08 February 2013 11:01

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