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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 13:22:08 JST iced depresso
   step 1. get copy of sci-hub repository
   step 2. neural search index
   step 3. scientific search engine :blobcatgendou:
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     Vo (vo@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 14:10:06 JST Vo

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     Oh baby!
     NCBI's search is very... "library"
     Not to say it's unfunctional or anything, just takes a lot of trial and error. Probably half the reason why people consider research as laborious.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 14:10:06 JST iced depresso

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     @Vo i'm kind of surprised how bad academic search engines are. like worse than the freely available search appliances :blobcatconfounded:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 20:38:37 JST iced depresso

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     @hazlin @Vo i mostly read from arxiv and computer science papers. this isn't really true there :neocat_woozy:
     
     it might be true in soft sciences
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     hazlin no plap pirate (hazlin@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 20:38:38 JST hazlin no plap pirate

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     @icedquinn @Vo My time reading white papers and journal articles, left a distinct impression that they are mostly word salad, and the facts are heavily obfuscated. I once asked a professor about it, he said that they do it on purpose so their work can't be disproven.
     
     So that would put them mostly in the same camp of legal articles. Garbage into the AI garbage out of the AI.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 20:48:28 JST iced depresso

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     @hazlin @Vo bummer. i often end up there from web searching a specific problem.
     
     i haven't seen what happens in neural search if you write your articles stupid on purpose. they might just never be found, because it looks for semantic similarity. and if you write word salad it won't be semantically similar to anything meaningful.
     
     idk
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     hazlin no plap pirate (hazlin@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 20:48:29 JST hazlin no plap pirate

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     @icedquinn @Vo
     uh oh
     
     I meant specifically, computer science, biology, and imaging xD
     
     Most of those were commonly cited papers.
     
     But, I even had a professor once have a melt down, because I removed the obfuscation from his papers. (a different one, at a different time and place than the one who I cited earlier)
     
     Professors derive their status from perceived competency, and the perceived difficulty of their work. The word salad, and obfuscation, is very intentional.