If you want a real vanity press, check vixra and its origin story.
ArXiv does have moderators and endorsers in each area, although they are usually light-touch, weeding out literally unreadable submissions, ones that so obviously ignore formatting guidelines that it beggars belief they could comply with a typical journal's rules, and ones that are clearly submitted to the wrong area.
Having a stable document early (a pre-print) tends to widen the scrutiny of papers that may ultimately be published to a journal whose editor's expertise lies in a very different area from the submission; this can and does lead to author corrections being made before journal publication.
There are plenty of peer-reviewed papers which are hot garbage that have found their way into prestigious high-impact journals like Nature and Science (see <https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard...> for examples, and note none of the top 10 are in areas covered by the arXiv).
> being published by a famous professor from a prestigious university is also no guarantee
Everyone in academia knows this, including the vast majority of famous professors from prestigious universities, because of online repositories like <https://retractionwatch.com/retractions-by-nobel-prize-winne...> (and much more sadly because of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease>, lower-profile versions of which academic paper-writers -- and dissertation writers -- tend to encounter as they chase the history of the problem before them or read late citations to works they are relying upon). This particular part of your set of claims is is not a real problem in academia or with the arXiv in particular.
Finally, what value does publication in a predatory journal bring? Do you believe that peer review and editing were actually performed in the majority of MDPI journals, for example? <https://www.predatoryjournals.org/news/list-of-all-mdpi-pred...> Some papers published in some of their pay-for-publication open access journals don't even get submitted to the arXiv; one might hope this is out of embarrassment by the authors, although the (low) bar set by the arXiv itself is certainly a factor.
Very true, I see it for example when my co-workers apply DRY without actually thinking about the complexity it might cause. It objectively makes code smaller, but often comes with complexity cost.
Pretty sure I read some where that Teslas self driving should not really even be allowed on roads so idk I think the whole company should be under investigation.
It's handy-wavy because nobody knows how it will turn out and which new jobs will be created. In the same way as every predictions about AI bust, job lost, moat (or lack of it) is. If you feel confident about your predictions, don't.
Yes. I had Kindle DX (2010) and Kindle Paperwhite (~2016?). I still have and use Onyx Boox Air (2?). As X4 has no touchscreen layer and no backlight, the contrast is best. Resolution not as good as Boox, but no complaints there. The only downside is no backlight, but not a problem for me. Buying a new eink reader I would for sure avoid color screens. Their contrast is worst by far.
It's insane, but it's not like it's not known, personally, each time we have a party at home with friends, we always unplug the TV for this reason, it's out of doubt but it's normal to doubt as it's proprietary and has a microphone, so it's a bit obvious that it might be recording and processing data somewhere. The same as I would never trust an average phone around for private conversation. Blackbox+Mic = Unsecure.
My reaction to the Unix pipeline was that, the reason it exploded in complexity is because the pieces were too simple. They were insufficiently expressive.
But the word is used in a different way here, and I'll have to watch the talk to understand what exactly is meant. (Something like orthogonality?)
The funny thing is - I'm virtually tone deaf and can't play the piano. It's my wife's piano, but when we bought it, I had the player system installed, so I could get some enjoyment out of it.
If TV manufacturers wanted to be underhanded then they could actually make this much harder to detect by delaying the connection to new unauthenticated networks for e.g. months or only after seeing another device connect and then using that device's MAC when it is not around.
It's not puritanism. You haven't grasped the ethical system if you don't understand that vegans view this as murder. Why should veganism have exceptions when we don't have exceptions for murder, rape, beating children? Most of us view animal exploitation at the same level.
Even if a urinal doesn't splash, there's usually (always?) a decent amount of fine droplets that eject out from the stream since the flow is rather turbulent. On top of that, the fleshy opening is never completely stable.
Not me reading the Hackernews front page RSS on an X4 coming across this post.
Great little device. There's a custom firmware that adds some nice to haves including the RSS reader. Downloads the linked HTML page for offline viewing and formats it nicely.
I'd hesitate to jump to the conclusion that Holmes had editorial control over the way journalists portrayed her. The idea that a 'young woman overcoming the odds' story sells more than 'young man overcoming the odds' doesn't take any leaps of faith to explain.
That doesn't mean that Holmes didn't benefit from such coverage, she obviously did, but to call it part of the scam as if it was under her control seems a bit far fetched.
Thanks! And I totally agree with your workflow, fresh sessions are the best way to avoid context degradation.
Just to clarify on the decision summaries - I actually don't let agents commit autonomously either! The summaries exist so that when you spin up that fresh session, the agent doesn't just read the code, it reads the context. It saves you from having to re-litigate past architectural decisions or re-explain your preferences every time you start a new task.
Nice tool you shared, feel free to mess around with engrim and provide feedback. You may end up really liking it. My Claude to Antigravity swaps have been really efficient and honestly, Antigravity has really upped their game lately so moving around for me personally this has been a big boost.
There seems to be a nice self-fulfilling narrative here:
1) "AI companies will go bust because tokens will cost too much" >> 2) "Don't let them build data centers that will sit empty" >> 3) Demand outstrips supply by a lot >> 4) Token costs too much.
Using AI to reverse engineer undocumented Bluetooth protocols has been a godsend for me. We have an RV that came with a "Smart RV" system from BMPro that controls all of the lights, the air conditioning, starting the generator, leveling, slideouts, and other stuff.
The BMPro app is... well, it's like they actively worked to make it terrible.
I put up with it for 2 years and then had the bright idea to throw the APK at Claude Opus earlier this year. I now no longer have to use their terrible app as it reverse engineered the Bluetooth protocol and I can either use the custom-built Android app, website hosted on GitHub Pages, or the Home Assistant app I built using AI.
It's not perfect, and it has bugs, but it is less buggy than their app. I've been busy at work lately, so I haven't had a chance to resolve the bugs, but I'll get around to it.
I ended up also using Opus to patch the original APK to fix several bugs and inexplicably bad UI choices they made. I still prefer to use my own app, but I have the patched app as a fallback.
