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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoAren'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 agoyes thats what i thought after the post. haha.
- ivansavz 2y agoIf 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 agoalso, 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 agoI 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 agoThe "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 agoI think this is where a lot of textbooks come from.