Can You Access Einstein's Papers Online?

[jedishrfu]

Einsteins papers are now publicly available online:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/5/7340029/digital-einstein-archives-princeton

 

[Doug Huffman]

The direct link URL is http://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Really neat to look through! Need some translations though :)

 

[Doug Huffman]

My neighbors and I recently discussed "Big Data" and the difficulty indexing it. Precisely the volume of Einstein's papers was mentioned. I struggle with Martin Luther's 15,000 pages of writings, and sermons. Browsing is not particularly useful in big-data.

 

[Nugatory]

My neighbors and I recently discussed "Big Data" and the difficulty indexing it. Precisely the volume of Einstein's papers was mentioned. I struggle with Martin Luther's 15,000 pages of writings, and sermons. Browsing is not particularly useful in big-data.

15,000 pages is a daunting amount of data when it's dumped in from of you, but it's not "big data" in the modern sense. 15,000 pages at a few hundreds of words per page and maybe ten characters per word, you're talking tens of megabytes. A random American grocery store generates and warehouses that much data every hour or so.

 

[Doug Huffman]

Thank you. My contribution to the Big Data conversation was the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid analyzing 25 PB a^-1. Also a recent gift of a 1 TB HDD of DRM free music that is almost unusable for lack of an index.