{"id":38,"date":"2003-11-13T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2003-11-13T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T01:04:00","slug":"turn-off-the-hose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/turn-off-the-hose\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn off the hose!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physics is lucky in having a single \u201cjournal\u201d in which nearly all new research is published \u2013 the <a href=http:\/\/www.arxiv.org>eprint arXiv<\/a> founded by Paul Ginsparg.<\/p>\n<p>A problem with this fabulous system is coping with the firehose of information it produces.  On a typical day more than one hundred new papers appear.  Just reading the titles and abstracts would consume a fair fraction of your day.<\/p>\n<p>How on earth are people supposed to cope with all this information?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics is lucky in having a single \u201cjournal\u201d in which nearly all new research is published \u2013 the eprint arXiv founded by Paul Ginsparg. A problem with this fabulous system is coping with the firehose of information it produces. On a typical day more than one hundred new papers appear. Just reading the titles and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/turn-off-the-hose\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turn off the hose!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}