a blog of Taras Filatov

Yesterday I have passed an examination for 6th kyu which is a first step on aikido career ladder

  How long does the review process take?
Typically the manuscript will be reviewed within four months, but review time may be longer or shorter in individual cases

- a quote from Peer review policy page of one of the Elsevier computer science journals.

When the journals in Computer Science field as well as in other scientific fields find normal to review papers for 4 months it is obvious that the science is moving forward with the speed of a turtle.

The situation is following:

• you have to demonstrate an innovative research in your paper

• you have to submit the manuscript to one journal at a time, double submission is prohibited

• you have to wait for months until the editorial board decides if your paper is accepted or not. If it’s not accepted, you have to try with other journal and wait again.

Within this time nobody knows about your innovation, it is supposed that you don’t publish it anywhere etc. Years may pass. Researchers have to learn the turtle’s pace , they don’t have other choice. Science is moving slowly.

I think this is not right. There should be a possibility to publish drafts of the paper at some place for discussion and further collaborative development.  Some wiki-style interface could be implemented for that so that one author adds his innovative ideas and others can access them instantly and propose improvements.

I have logged into facebook which I havent’ checked for a long time and have received a storm of various inviations

as famous Russian “vkontakte.ru” is nothing but Facebook, soon the same will start happening in Russian-speaking internet

social networks will eat 70% time of those who can’t stop themselves from using useless applications

as with any other thing, there are good and bad sides about social networks and it depends on how you use them

those guys will earn a lot who create these timewasting applications such as plugin allowing you to drop snowballs into your friends or application picking random phrases about Chuck Norris

the future is bright

let’s use the social networks, maintain our contacts, have fun, but do it considerably

thanks bro :))

P.S. I might start developing applications for social networks, it seems a good business. Will try to make useful ones though.

We’ve been fishing last Saturday with my friend Roman. It’s third time we went fishing with the spinning and first time outside the city. I was lucky enough to catch a small pike!

This is my proud spinning rod, “Ugly stick”:

I’m a real aikidoka now. Almost like Steven Seagal.

The summer school in Chester in 2007 was great, I’ve had a very pleasant time and have met a lot of good folk not to mention the everyday practice of aikido with the best senseis such as Kanetsuka and Sugawara. It’s like touching a legend. Still can’t really believe but I was there.

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~aikido/news.html

It’s a pity to leave the Southampton University dojo, I think Alex Megann is a great sensei. I hope I will be able to find some good dojo in Kharkov where I’m going to spend some time (probably about half a year) now.