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This is great. Is it available as a printed book?

falcor84 2y ago
From a brief search I see that it isn't (or it least not yet), but seeing how well-formatted the pdf is, and the fact that it's CC-licensed, you could print it yourself, or perhaps talk with them to organize a batch. Though I personally prefer to read these sorts of books directly from pdf, and am grateful to them for sharing it on arxiv.
- mnky9800n 2y ago
  I wonder if one could organize an arXiv print service that binds and prints and ships with a unique cover and such. Also it should use LLMs and the blockchain. But this would be nice there are a number of papers and such that if you could submit an arXiv link to a print service I would probably buy a copy. I wonder why no one does it.
  - woolion 2y ago
    Aren't you describing Lulu but for the very niche case of arxiv publications that are small books but not published as books? I think you could do it in a weekend with their API.
    - mnky9800n 2y ago
      yes thats what i thought after the post. haha.
    - ivansavz 2y ago
      If anyone is interested in trying this, here is some Python starter code you might find useful: https://github.com/minireference/lulu-api-client?tab=readme-ov-file#usage https://github.com/minireference/lulu-api-client?tab=readme-... This worked four years ago when the API was still launched, but there might have been changes since, so no guarantees. Most ArXiv PDFs are probably lulu-printable out of the box, but to make a general solution, one would probably need to do some pre-processing with ghostscript (gs), e.g. embed all fonts and flatten images (no transparency).
      - mnky9800n 2y ago
        also, they require that you have both the interior contents as a pdf and a pdf of the cover, so it will need to either auto-generate or offer the option to have a custom cover art.
- madcaptenor 2y ago
  I wonder if they're aiming for it to be a book. Hubotter describes it on his web page as "notes on Probabilistic AI".
  - au8er 2y ago
    The "book" is accompanying studying material for the course Probabilistic AI at ETH Zurich. Essentially each chapter is the material covered in one lecture (3hrs). Source: I did the course
    - madcaptenor 2y ago
      I think this is where a lot of textbooks come from.
esafak 2y ago
I do not think so. I am asking the author for confirmation.
- adrc 2y ago
  There's no printed version. Btw I took this course at ETHZ last year (a course with this title and whose script is this document. Pretty nice course and pretty nice course notes, happy to see that the authors decided to share it outside of the course website now!

From a brief search I see that it isn't (or it least not yet), but seeing how well-formatted the pdf is, and the fact that it's CC-licensed, you could print it yourself, or perhaps talk with them to organize a batch. Though I personally prefer to read these sorts of books directly from pdf, and am grateful to them for sharing it on arxiv.

mnky9800n 2y ago
I wonder if one could organize an arXiv print service that binds and prints and ships with a unique cover and such. Also it should use LLMs and the blockchain. But this would be nice there are a number of papers and such that if you could submit an arXiv link to a print service I would probably buy a copy. I wonder why no one does it.
- woolion 2y ago
  Aren't you describing Lulu but for the very niche case of arxiv publications that are small books but not published as books? I think you could do it in a weekend with their API.
  - mnky9800n 2y ago
    yes thats what i thought after the post. haha.
  - ivansavz 2y ago
    If anyone is interested in trying this, here is some Python starter code you might find useful: https://github.com/minireference/lulu-api-client?tab=readme-ov-file#usage https://github.com/minireference/lulu-api-client?tab=readme-... This worked four years ago when the API was still launched, but there might have been changes since, so no guarantees. Most ArXiv PDFs are probably lulu-printable out of the box, but to make a general solution, one would probably need to do some pre-processing with ghostscript (gs), e.g. embed all fonts and flatten images (no transparency).
    - mnky9800n 2y ago
      also, they require that you have both the interior contents as a pdf and a pdf of the cover, so it will need to either auto-generate or offer the option to have a custom cover art.
madcaptenor 2y ago
I wonder if they're aiming for it to be a book. Hubotter describes it on his web page as "notes on Probabilistic AI".
- au8er 2y ago
  The "book" is accompanying studying material for the course Probabilistic AI at ETH Zurich. Essentially each chapter is the material covered in one lecture (3hrs). Source: I did the course
  - madcaptenor 2y ago
    I think this is where a lot of textbooks come from.

esafak 2y ago

I do not think so. I am asking the author for confirmation.

adrc 2y ago
There's no printed version. Btw I took this course at ETHZ last year (a course with this title and whose script is this document. Pretty nice course and pretty nice course notes, happy to see that the authors decided to share it outside of the course website now!