I owe my thesis to scihub lol. I can’t stand publishing companies, especially elsevier.
Is this the most boring episode of the twilight zone? I just made this 10 mins ago (was relevant in a convo):
Elsevier is so bad
i did enjoy looking at old thesis on my university. seing typewriter written thesis with hand drawn plots in graph papers, original gel images, glued in pictures…
those theses are adorable scrapbooks of stress, sweat and tears.
that are so precious
Not really relevant, but: word processors were just starting to be used when I went to college, but I still mostly preferred using my portable electric typewriter. During my junior year the G key broke off and disappeared, so all my papers from that point on have the Gs written in by hand. If they ever invent time travel, I’m going to assume that enough other people are going back to kill baby Hitler and I’ll slap the shit out of 20-year-old me.
that’s a gargantuan grind. go and get your garish young self.
Not really accurate - publishers might put papers behind paywalls, but researchers themselves are usually glad to send them to anyone who requests them as long as they have time. And it’s totally legal, not like they’re pirating their own papers.
That’s a great point, I’ve reached out to researchers a few times to ask about their research and they have all freely just shared the work with me.
The biggest joke here is that he thinks his thesis will be worth something to other people at the time he’s writing it.
smh
That guy should be happy that no AI will ever be trained on their work. It’s ok to contribute to progress, but only if it’s progress the cool kids approve of. Know your place, nerds.
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