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ranzispa

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  • Walls within walls

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  • I know people who get 12,000€ for a year long research project which includes employing other part time people. I doubt they can pay for open access.

    However, the submitted version is yours to do whatever you want; please host it on your website or wherever it may be simple for you.

  • Walls within walls

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  • Happens often to me. I know nobody in research who would care about it. Most people will likely congratulate you for not paying for access. Nobody likes the way journals do business.

    Fuck you Elsevier.

  • Walls within walls

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  • Papers in Anna's archive are mostly from sci-hub. There's something not available on sci-hub, but not much.

    Real problem is that sci-hub was the organization doing the archival on large scale and it is now dead.

  • Walls within walls

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  • I like to keep the submitted version after review but without editing on my public repositories. Even when I publish open access.

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  • I'd rather use sci-hub than institutional access when the article is available. Fuck publishers.

    Really hope someone comes up, recognizes how much public research money is wasted on this bullshit and sets up a public publisher directly funded by research funds which allows people to publish and read freely.

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  • Did they have dedicated cat food before WWII? until recently I was convinced people were just giving their dogs and cats their scraps. With cats possibly not even giving them the scraps and just letting them go hunt.

  • Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

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  • I love RSS feeds. One thing I'd like to work better is for websites with comment sections. It would be cool if you could read the article and have the possibility of the comments to also show up. I know some websites have separate feeds for comments, but I never understood how to make that into a usable experience.

  • Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC - 25th Jun 2026

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  • Stardew Valley and Undertale

    Games developed before generative AI was widely available and usable for software development.

    TBF I believe indie games will benefit the most from generative AI. Letting a model have to worry about quaternions definitely makes things easier.

  • Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time - Free Software Foundation

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  • looks at contact information

    IRC is the only communication channel

    Yes, certified free software stuff

  • New hollow-core fiber test pushes internet speeds to 1.2Tb/s

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  • Oh, yes I do need to do that from time to time. That's why a faster internet connection would make life simpler.

  • New hollow-core fiber test pushes internet speeds to 1.2Tb/s

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  • Not sure what is the snail mail, but yes; serious. It's mostly simulations data. I can easily produce 100 TB/GPU*day. I have access to some 500 GPUs. Data can not stay where it is produced in order to free up space for more to be produced and must be shuffled around to be processed, thus the importance of a fast internet connection. Sometimes I need to get part of this data on my local computer, process it and upload it somewhere else, it can be terribly slow on a normal 1 GB/s connection.

  • There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated

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  • Sorry, this is not about you; just a reflection. I've been in the US a couple times and I got my positive and negative impressions. The more I learn about life in the US, the less it feels like a desirable country to live in. Not talking about the current political situation, just how life works and quality of life.

  • You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.

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  • To be fair, it is fairly good at selecting and optimizing algorithms; as long as you set up a set of correctness tests and performance benchmarks it can use to evaluate if it's doing well. The other day in about half an hour I got a 26,000% improvement in performance on a specific algorithm which I had implemented as it was published in the original paper. Same results under all conditions, but it decided to rearrange the formula to use a few matrix tricks and optimized for SIMD instructions. That is the kind of things I'd never do myself: I don't care if such calculation takes 3 weeks using 256 cores and 200 GB of memory, if I have to optimize for SIMD instructions that will likely take me one or two weeks and I don't have time for that. I'd rather burn compute. If it takes me a couple hours I'm very happy to bring down a computation which would take weeks to an hour or so.

  • Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI | CNN

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  • I'm afraid we have nothing more to talk about. While I have no idea whether people working in the US military are incompetent or not, I would tend to think they are not. It appears you think the opposite. One of the two of us may be closer to the truth, however I doubt any of us actually knows. It's been a good chat!

  • You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.

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  • I can assure I work much faster. Maybe it is a bit different since I work in research and that's indeed different from working on a large established codebase. Most of my projects are greenfield.

    However, recently using Claude code I started many different projects I'd never have approached since I knew it would have taken me months to complete correctly. We are talking about porting file format readers and writers to new languages, then implementing novel algorithms to process such data and optimize it to work on different GPU architectures. Getting a working software takes about a week of work. A publishable cleaned up codebase 2/3 weeks. No way I could do this myself alone in such span of time.

    On the other hand, I have students working with me, using AI is definitely not helping them to learn how to code and how to reason. In several occasions I had them showing me a novel huge equation which apparently worked, but then looking at it properly was just over fitting data and they had no way to explain why such an equation should be used.

  • There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated

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  • Sorry you live in a place where tap water is not good. Wherever I lived, except china and India, tap water was always better than bottled water.

  • There is a heat wave going hard, please stay hydrated

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  • One sip of water. 3/4 liters of beer, sorry one more glass of water would cover my daily consumption for the next 3 days and I don't want to spoil that.

  • Netflix now requires every user profile to be tied to unique email address

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  • Fair, but self hosting stuff has that part of self. It is difficult to make it easy for everyone since everyone has a different setup, as such it is mostly directed towards people who are expert in doing this kinds of things or who will dedicate the time to learn how to do it.

    The good thing is after you spent a couple days trying to figure out how to make it work, it will work in the future and you already know how to setup more stuff.

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  • Isn't this the requirement of every website with a login system since the 90s? Never used Netflix, was it possible to subscribe without providing an email address?

    Also, temporary email addresses exist, as well as setting up a throw away email address; don't see much of a problem with this.