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This is not a huge problem anymore, because scihub exists. For academics it also doesn't matter because they have a university library subscription for all the

• ninjin 8y ago
  It certainly matters because the whole Machine Learning field was pretty much 100% open access before DeepMind “went big” and started pursuing Nature publications from the Atari paper and onwards. I completely understand their move as Nature brings with it a lot of prestige well beyond your own field, it is a genius tactical move. But I still feel that this undermines something rare and precious that we have as a field.