This seems incredibly sad somehow To me it would be a mark of living death
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Replying to @vgr
WHAT okay how i feel like i'm not accurately expressing the beauty and potential here but explain
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Replying to @nwilliams030
90% published research is garbage put out by sad cronyist scholarly communities. Stuff at best worth indexing for broader trends in a PDF dump. You’d be choosing to live in an aestheticized landfill Old books would be slightly less sad: less garbagey, but even more dead.
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
I barely like the sight of my own paper copies of the few papers I’ve published. Tossed most of my physical paper collection (2-3 shelves of 3-ring binders) a few years ago — andvthats filtered and selected stuff. I still have a few hundred digital pdfs in Dropbox.
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Replying to @vgr
Wow okay - is there any library-type ideal for you then?
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
Twitter is genuinely superior as a discovery environment to any library I’ve ever used. You get to be in the middle of a million messy, ornery, grumpy, but living, thinking minds. You are in the gravity field of the actual creative destruction of ideas.
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
At any moment a bunnytail might open up for you that leads to a new Alice-like wonderland. Could be esoteric theoretical physics or some silly ascii art subculture. Or just the one weirdo in the world who knows all about some random shit
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Replying to @vgr @nwilliams030
Your profile says machine learning. You’re sitting in the best living data set in history and you’re fantasizing about retreating to some sad little dead collection of pseudorandom narrow data
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Libraries are great don’t get me wrong. But I’d rather know the 1 person who can point me to the one worthwhile paper in a 100 than have all 100 papers but no one pointing me anywhere.
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