August 2020 gwern.net newsletter

post by gwern · 2020-09-01T21:04:58.299Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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comment by ryan_b · 2020-09-07T19:21:43.449Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This particular newsletter has a lot of interesting papers in it, which I mostly infer means more time was spent researching things similar to my interests this month.

I notice The Node is Nonsense link now directs to the IEEE website instead of to the pdf. Was that intentional?

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↑ comment by gwern · 2020-09-07T21:48:13.814Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

A lot of the links are spillover from continued editing of my GPT-3 pages, which is probably why.

And yes, it is intentional. The IEEE is remarkably humorless about people hosting PDFs.

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↑ comment by ryan_b · 2020-09-07T22:31:00.780Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Curse them! I dropped my membership because it is mostly pretty worthless, but every now and again an interesting paper comes through and then I am sad.

I have fallen right into their trap.

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↑ comment by gwern · 2020-09-08T00:59:51.696Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Fortunately, it's not as if the IEEE have any special immunity to Sci-Hub.