srkirk

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by srkirk 1y ago
What happens if (a) the scholarly sphere is continually expanding and (b) no researcher has time to be ripping apart anything? That also suggests (c) Researchers delegate reviewing duties to LLMs.
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by srkirk 1y ago
I believe LLMs have the potential to (for good or ill, depending on your view) destroy academic journals. The scenario I am thinking of is academic A submitting a manuscript to an academic journal, which gets passed on by the journal editor
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by srkirk 1y ago
ColdML H(o)tML for websites -> ColdML when archived. Also, connotations of cold storage, deep freeze preservation etc.
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by srkirk 2y ago
I've used a number of Philips SA2208 8Gb players, with headphone jack, for this. The simple display seems to get patchy after a while, but the music playing function seems to work quite well for my purposes. I'm not aware of any t
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Ask HN: Plugin to set per-message 'expiry date' in Thunderbird?
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by srkirk 4y ago
Disclaimer (does it really need one?): On the first link above: I shared responsibility for the menial editing, checking and manual indexing of the entire book volume.
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by srkirk 4y ago
Not sure. I know that the conglomerate Outokumpu once had a pilot plant with high-Tc superconducting magnets deployed in the Amazon region somewhere ('Ice in the jungle'? Hah, hold my beer, try liquid-helium cooled superconducting
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by srkirk 4y ago
One summary of some of the basic technologies can be found in: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-8263-6_... and cited references therein. A more recent variation on this theme can be found at:
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by srkirk 4y ago
Efficient extraction of metals (and materials that can be broken down to useful precursors) from landfills and 'e-waste'. My PhD supervisor worked for years before he retired, on, among other things, magnetic separation using inho
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by srkirk 4y ago
Hello mdasen, Thanks for your input. Self-hosting is pretty much what the owner (Jan Labanowski) has been doing so far, with all the accompanying problems noted by yourself and kxrm. I'm just a long-time CCL.net subscriber and not the
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by srkirk 4y ago
Thanks for your input, kxrm. CCL.net is a one-man operation and the owner (Jan Labanowski) has been running it for many years and has seen many if not all of the problems you mention.
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by srkirk 4y ago
Wow, that was fast! Thanks again!
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by srkirk 4y ago
request sent: many thanks for alerting me to this issue!
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Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?
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