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Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag
by hacker42 10y ago
Remember that arXiv is just pre-print and the last page if not the entire paper is probably nothing more than a lame/distasteful joke. Remember that any nutbag who knows a little English and LaTeX can publish on arXiv. It will likely not make it into a journal.
- dogma1138 10y agoNot sure, I think it will make it in, also the response from 4chan was pretty funny via one of the authors. https://twitter.com/jhblackb/status/786301793064017920 https://twitter.com/jhblackb/status/786301793064017920
- wnkrshm 10y agoIt is not entirely a free-for all (as in, anyone can submit papers), there is an endorsement system [1]. Of course, it's only networking and who-knows-who - but there is controversy, as in established contributors think that the endorsement system is too high a barrier. [1] https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
- herge 10y agoIt's almost as bad as HackerNews comments
- Gruselbauer 10y agoNo u.
- dylanfw 10y agoSeeing "LaTeX" (lay-tech) and "arXiv" together in your sentence made me finally realize that arXiv is pronounced "archive". I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years.
- eclyps19 10y agoIt's really not pronounced "lay-tecks"? Damn, I've been pronouncing that incorrectly for years, then.
- adrianN 10y agoLaTeX: /ˈlɑːtɛx/ LAH-tekh, also pronounced as /ˈlɑːtɛk/ LAH-tek or /ˈleɪtɛk/ LAY-tek
- mturmon 10y agoKnuth, in his book, memorably decreed a pronunciation (and case mixing in the written form) for TeX, with a hard /ch/ at the end (literally, "your monitor should become slightly moist"), backed by a clever and erudite rationale involving the etymology of words like technique. Leslie Lamport, in his book on LaTeX, decreed a case mixing, but (as you say) ok'd any reasonable pronunciation.
- verandaguy 10y agoOriginally, a TeX user would've been called a TeXnician, which, according to Don Knuth, would be pronounced the same as "technician."
- dhimes 10y agoYes- it comes from the same root.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI guess we're in the same boat on that one. It's a weird pronunciation, though, so it barely counts against us. ;)
- socialist_coder 10y ago> I've been reading it as "arx-iv" for years. Same. You've blown my mind!
- vidarh 10y agoArchive is spelled "arkiv" in several languages, and the etymology goes back (via latin) to the Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon), so it's a quite clever name.
- coldpie 10y agoWhere "clever" is a synonym for "needlessly unintuitive." Not that I'm complaining.
- coldpie 10y agoTook me a long time to figure out that NGINX is not supposed to be spelled out.