It’s been 15 days since I sent back my proof corrections (with only three minor corrections related to the spelling of some of the author’s names). why the fuck isn’t my article published yet (online first)? Why is it taking so long. It was assigned to the June issue and I even got an article number and a DOI but now it’s July and it’s still not out. Several papers for the same issue is already published (online).

it was accepted in April. God fucking damnit I submitted this paper exactly a year ago in two days.

Should I email the editor in chief or nag the proof reading lady?

This is a phenomenon I have been noticing for a while and I have never found a good explanation.
When a body of water has a certain amount and size of waves and the light is at the right angle the surface will look something like in pic related.
There are shapes of areas which are brighter and darker due. This is almost certainly because the surface in the brighter areas is more wavy and causes more dispersion,
This all seems quite obvious, some areas have more waves, but the strange thing is that these shapes are rather *persistent in time*
You can expect one of these areas where the water supposedly has more chaotic waves to keep its area for a minutes at a time! This is strange since the chaotic behaviour of water should imply that the shapes change all the time.
The problem is that I haven't caught a video of this yet. If the patterns you see in pic related looked completely different after a few seconds nothing interesting would be going on, but they do stay the same for extended periods of time!

I know this is a stupid question, but how is the heat of fusion reactors contained? There's obviously some physics and material sciences involved, but explain it in layman's terms.

I miss old /sci/. Now the catalog has a bunch of anti-vax, trans hate, black people hate and is overall anti science. I also hate the schizos that think spamming soijack is funny.

How do I become an AI specialist? I'm *very* good at math, and while I haven't done much programming, I seem to be able to pick it up quickly too.
Which books should I read, which companies should I aim to work for, tell me anything about the field.
Some questions I have about it, mostly related to which disciplines should I take:
>is low level language (including C, Fortran and such) knowledge required, or should I focus on high level and OOP?
>should I know linear and non linear programming?
>what math subjects are most "important" to it? I heard they are linear algebra and probability and statistics.
>databases and data mining knowledge is important too, right?
Thanks in advance.

I mean I'm a pretty small dude with skinny (but not limp) wrists and my knuckles have always judded out, they look like brass knuckles. What do we know about how hands/knuckles evolved for fighting?

What's next for the human race? Space colonisation?

Is the universe infinate?