{"id":352,"date":"2011-03-29T22:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/03\/29\/the_advances_of_modern_technology\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T20:15:27","slug":"the_advances_of_modern_technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/03\/29\/the_advances_of_modern_technology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advances of Modern Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sign of how the web has changed research. Today I was reading a paper that used a technique that goes by the name of &#8220;linear model of coregionalization&#8221;. No, I didn&#8217;t know what it was either. The paper didn&#8217;t explain it very well, but gave a reference &#8230; to a book.<br \/>\nYes, one of those things (youngsters may wish to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book\">follow this link<\/a> to know what I&#8217;m writing about). Not much use, when I&#8217;m sat at my computer is is, thought I. How am I meant to follow that reference up?<br \/>\nFortunately, what technology taketh away, technology giveth. After I had vented my frustration, I used google to search (my elder readers may wish to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Search\">follow this link<\/a> to know what I&#8217;m writing about) for &#8220;linear model of coregionalization&#8221;. After a couple of false starts, I found a paper that described it well enough for my needs. So it turned out well in the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI guess in the olden days I would have written a book about this, or perhaps a Letter to the Editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a sign of how the web has changed research. Today I was reading a paper that used a technique that goes by the name of &#8220;linear model of coregionalization&#8221;. No, I didn&#8217;t know what it was either. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2011\/03\/29\/the_advances_of_modern_technology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}