Working from home means I've been getting a lot of bird watching in! There are a bunch that stop by our feeder including cardinals, jays, a couple kinds of woodpecker, a red-winged blackbird, and several very round mourning doves. My conference paper did get accepted! I handed in the camera-ready copy last week and posted it to arxiv.org, but it's 'on hold' and I'm not sure how long to wait before talking to them given waves hands the general state of things. A week? Two weeks? It's been intermittently really hard to focus but my advisor expects a lot of progress so I'm trying my best. My wife and metamour are both working from home and their managers are all "take lots of breaks" "don't work too hard" which is just furthering my desire to be done with grad school one way or another.
Oh! Due to aforementioned work-from-home, we moved all my lab plants and all my metamour's office plants home. The only place they're safe from the cat is my bedroom, so now I get to wake up to this every morning: The cat does not care for our aloes so they get to hang out elsewhere:
IIRC, their policy was two weeks even before covid started.My conference paper did get accepted! I handed in the camera-ready copy last week and posted it to arxiv.org, but it's 'on hold' and I'm not sure how long to wait before talking to them given waves hands the general state of things. A week? Two weeks?
Thanks! The FAQ they link to about 'on-hold' publications just says "may take a few days" but I will keep being patient as I'm sure they're both understaffed and more busy than usual thanks to everyone having to stay out of the lab and work on papers instead.
No problem. And, yeah, it's probably for the best to keep calm while they deal with what's certainly more than their usual problems. What's your paper about, if you don't me prying? BTW, I recently found this utility, and it's been proving itself invaluable.
Detexify is the only practical use I've found so far for the touchscreen on my laptop! The paper's on stuff I did for undergrad research ages ago that just never got published. We wanted to see if we could detect static shocks to a computer using only software running on the computer and it turns out that yes you can probably do that, although it's tricky. Looking back on it I wish we had had better experimental methodology but fortunately the project's been revived in a slightly different form so hopefully my dreams will come to pass.