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by a3_nm 5y ago
I also have an initiative to boycott reviewing for closed-access journals with currently >350 signers. If you agree, consider signing it :) https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/ Indeed, for-profit publishing only works because
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by a3_nm 5y ago
This looks very nice! is it possible to download the dataset? (PS: comparable initiative of citation datasets that are downloadable: S2ORC https://github.com/allenai/s2orc and Internet Archive Refcat https:/&#x2F
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by a3_nm 5y ago
I think there are at least three notions of "high-quality" conflated in the article: - leisure which also satisfies longer-term goals (e.g., listening to an educational podcast, practicing a skill), vs leisure which is only pleasa
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by a3_nm 5y ago
Like other claims that cannot be verified as a consumer, e.g., health safety claims: usually trust them and hope that companies have more to lose when making false claims than they have to win by lying. Something labeled as low-carbon-footp
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by a3_nm 5y ago
Probably not what OP had in mind, but under the assumption that you want to buy a new laptop, one thing I would look for is low carbon footprint (many manufacturers publish this information), and low social impact in terms of the conditions
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by a3_nm 6y ago
No, they should be immediately open-access. Why give commercial publishers a 1-year exclusivity window for free?
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by a3_nm 6y ago
The wind is blowing towards gold open access, i.e., the research remains published at Elsevier, it is open-access, but publishing each article costs $1000-$2000 charged to the university via grant money or "subscriptions to publish&quo
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by a3_nm 6y ago
The big mistake in the system is that everyone in the world is relying on Google services... These problems would have less impact with a more diverse ecosystem.
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by a3_nm 6y ago
Interesting, thanks! Do you have a link to know more about people to whom this happened?
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by a3_nm 6y ago
And courts in France can also order sites to be blocked, as was the case for Sci-hub and Libgen.
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by a3_nm 6y ago
I think it's misleading to phrase things, as the article does, as just "more deaths" vs "the economy". The drawbacks of a large-scale mandatory lockdown (as opposed to asking people to do their own social distancing
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by a3_nm 6y ago
This is a super cool project, but downloading the tracks require giving an email address and subscribing to a newsletter. Fortunately, as the work is public domain, we can all re-host it as we want. :) In case that's helpful, here&#x27
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by a3_nm 6y ago
Sadly, not for all use cases, in particular not for large meetings (>50 people) with video.
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Contributing guidelines for computer science research(github.com)
4 points by a3_nm 6y ago|0 comments
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by a3_nm 6y ago
You can't easily download or mirror this dataset because of its copyright status, so they don't solve the problem.
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by a3_nm 6y ago
Would you like to do this kind of innovative use on the corpus of scientific articles? Yeah, you can't without specific partnerships, because that corpus is spread between various publishers and locked behind paywalls. (Who have not co
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by a3_nm 6y ago
> The French government is slowly bringing its lockdown to a close from May 11, with cyclists allowed back onto the roads for the first time since March. To clarify, this is somewhat inaccurate: biking is permitted, and has always been p
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by a3_nm 6y ago
And maybe we reduce the total amount of travel, which is crucial to reduce our carbon footprint. These airline bailouts are a huge missed opportunity.
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by a3_nm 6y ago
In my academic field (computer science), people go to conferences because you have to present in person the research that you publish there. The question of whether traveling to the conference is worthwhile at all is irrelevant. With confer
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by a3_nm 6y ago
> "attending conferences was always fun" Well it's also because there were always disadvantages we forget about: hours upon hours of travel, going on your own, sleeping in unfamiliar rooms, not to mention the cost of it al
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TCS4F Manifesto: Pledge for sustainable research in theoretical computer science(tcs4f.org)
2 points by a3_nm 6y ago|0 comments
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by a3_nm 6y ago
It's not true that something isn't valuable just because it hasn't scaled. PGP has an outdated and confusing UX, a broken threat model, and is extremely bad in many respects. But it does have users, and for some people and so
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by a3_nm 7y ago
This is a great feature. Having been to a 100-person conference on Zoom which tried to emulate social activities by splitting large groups in Zoom breakout rooms, there is clearly a need for a service like this. Congrats on shipping!
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by a3_nm 7y ago
But it does not seem possible to have your webcam as your avatar (you can only put it out there as an object in space, which is not as useful).
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by a3_nm 7y ago
https://a3nm.net/blog Ridiculously infrequent (but there's RSS of course, so who cares). Random postings about stuff that interests me (software, theoretical computer science and research, language). The blog is purely
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by a3_nm 7y ago
See also the riskier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_bump
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by a3_nm 7y ago
Part of me can't help but suspect that they are also doing this because, believe it or not, many computer science researchers don't know that these paywalls exist, because they are subscribed through their university. Now that the
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by a3_nm 7y ago
> Also, this way the used cartridges (dangerous waste) are handled properly and an environmentally friendly way. You don't need a subscription model for this. At least for laser printers, HP allows you to mail back your used cartrid
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by a3_nm 7y ago
IEEE still does not allow open access to the articles they publish, and requires its authors to sign exclusive copyright transfer agreements, so it's no better than ACM in terms of open access.
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by a3_nm 7y ago
The license option is worse than you say: it's an exclusive license, meaning that not only can they do whatever they want, but you can't even do whatever you want anymore (distributing the article, etc.).

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