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1. aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 18:56:29 UTC aeva

   I know this is both controversial and brave of me to say, but I really hate the "two-column paper" format. {lastname}%y.pdf why are you like this.

   • aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 18:56:29 UTC aeva

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     If we lived in the parallel universe where Zefram Cochrane doesn't shoot the Vulcan, this would all just be hypertext! Just HTML with a tasteful stylesheet. Oh, that reference to another paper looks interesting? Just click on it and have a lookaroo

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   • TheZouave (thezouave@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 18:56:34 UTC TheZouave

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     • Oblomov

     @oblomov @aeva Why wouldn't the authors give a link to the arxiv repository or personal hosting of the pdf? Do the publishers disallow those links on the principle that they aren't scholarly?

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   • Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 18:56:35 UTC Oblomov

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     • TheZouave

     @TheZouave @aeva
     interestingly, more modern documents are also available in HTML form, and both PDFs and HTML have hyperlinks for citations that you can follow —as long as you have the luck of belonging to an institution that subscribes to that particular journal and/or the authors shelled thousands of dollars to make it open access.

   • TheZouave (thezouave@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 18:56:36 UTC TheZouave

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     @aeva You know, it's kind of crazy how much everyone has been convinced to give useless citations and/or references. Compare and contrast how many times you've gone through looking up a citation versus clicking a hyperlink.