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> arXiv was founded in 1991 by then-Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, prior to his return to Cornell in 2001. I had no idea ar
by jxf 3y ago
> arXiv was founded in 1991 by then-Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. ’81, prior to his return to Cornell in 2001.
I had no idea arXiv was that old. I honestly only heard of it and started using it less than 10 years ago.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt was an email listserv before it was a web site.
- jessriedel 3y agoDifferent disciplines began regularly posting their papers to the arXiv at different times. The order was (very) roughly High-energy theory ~1992 Other physics theory ~1994 Physics experiment ~1996 Math ~2000 CS ~2008 Some disciplines flipped nearly overnight, while others took several years of slow growth before posting to the arXiv become the default.
- bfung 3y agoAdvertisements masquerading as science ~2016 (2023 for sure)
- queuebert 3y agoI feel like you're calling out deep learning.
- bfung 3y ago100%
- starcraft2wol 3y agoOf course. Sophisticated marketing campaigns have material covering the full range of audiences from bikini clad women, to scientific papers.
- jxf 3y agoAhh, this does explain it somewhat (I'm mostly a CS-background and econ-background person). Thank you for adding your knowledge.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoCS was surely earlier, it was quite widely used by 2006 in my recollection
- jessriedel 3y agoLike I said, it's very rough since the transition happened over several year. I dunno, you can eyeball this plot; if anything I'd say it didn't become default in CS until after 2010: https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThank you for linking that! Do you happen to know what "eess" is?
- jessriedel 3y agoElectrical engineering and systems science. You can find all the abbreviations on the home page (which is easy to ctrl-f for) https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/ or this taxonomy page (which annoyingly has to be clicked at each level, but is maybe easier to read) https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThank you very much :)
- beezle 3y agoI still find myself typing in xxx.lanl.gov It used to redirect but doesn't anymore :(
- waveBidder 3y agothe most risqué place to store your preprints