An interesting chart on the long-term #history of #science by Matías Cabello.
source - appendix B in
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4389708
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According to a recent paper by Alexandra Elbakyan:
- Sci-Hub serves > 1 billion downloads per year
- Sci-Hub covers > 70% of published articles
This means that it's on par with #arxiv and Springer - an incredible result (provided the difference in team size and financial capabilities).
Just learned that grade inflation dates back at least to the post-war period
(i.e. LLMs are climax of a VERY long-lasting deterioration process)
- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/3/barton-grade-inflation/
- https://gradeinflation.com/
Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
The damage of grade inflation has largely been done as there’s no hope of returning to a grading scheme where a C is average. But we can still resolve the growing threat of grade compression before it wreaks further havoc on Harvard’s education. Maybe it’s time for another “Committee on Raising the Standard” — 128 years later.
An incredible attention to #aesthetic detail: #Netherlands have a special vase design for tulips.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_vase
The best illustration is a #painting by Jose Escofet: Tulip Vase with Red and Yellow Tulips.
https://joseescofet.com/1995-1999/
WOW
"You might expect lots of separate clusters to emerge as distinct academic families. But it turns out that almost all #Nobel laureates share some connection, however distant, as represented by this sprawling network.
An incredible 702 out of 736 researchers who have won #science and economics prizes up to 2023 are part of the same academic family — connected by an academic link in common somewhere in their history."
How do the felt experiences in our minds relate to the neural processes in our brains?
Robert Lawrence Kuhn compiles an impressive collection of possible answers in a new paper —
"A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications" (2024)
He also discusses such implications as survival beyond death, consciousness of artificial intelligence and meaning of life.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610723001128
