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What is ONOS's (real) problem?

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Analysis Op-eds Science article processing charges Department of Science & Technology gold open access green open access One Nation One Subscription prestige journals Principle Scientific Advisor publish or perish scholarly publishing subscription-based journals

The Indian government set the country’s research community aflutter when it announced the launch of a long-awaited plan to improve research access without announcing many of its salient details as wel…

Correlation isn’t causation — the EVM edition

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Analysis Bharatiya Janata Party Election Commission of India electronic voting machines Indian National Congress Maharashtra paper ballots software testing Supreme Court of India voter-verifiable paper audit trail voting

The space to disagree with the Election Commission’s position vis-à-vis the integrity of electronic voting machines without finding oneself backtracking into the Congress or the BJP camps is shrinking…

A not-so-random walk through random walks

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Scicomm animal foraging Brownian bridge Brownian motion cellular automata Conway's Game of Life fractals gamma distribution Gaussian distribution heavy tail John Conway Langton's ant Lévy flight probability distribution function random walk random walk hypothesis resistor networks Sierpienski triangle statistical properties stochastic processes Wiener process

Though I’ve been interested of late with the idea of random walks, I was introduced to the concept when, more than two decades ago, I stumbled across Conway’s Game of Life, the cellular automaton buil…