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There is widespread (even if not universal) agreement that something is deeply wrong with the current system of academic publishing. The basic point, which has been made innumerable times by innumerable people, is that the really hard parts -- the writing of papers, and the peer review and selection of the ones to publish --...
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Academic publishing is at root a kind of scam. The publishers get away with not paying academics (or paying them very little) because aca...
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[AI summary] The article critiques the high costs of academic publishing, arguing that science funders should directly pay to create a network of prestigious, free 'diamond open access' journals to reduce dependency on commercial publishers.
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In my last post on computer vision and memorability, I looked at an already existing model and started experimenting with variations on that architecture. The most successful attempts were those that use Residual Neural Networks. These are a type of deep neural network built to mimic specific visual structures in the brain. ResMem, one of the new models, uses a variation on ResNet in its architecture to leverage that optical identification power towards memorability estimation.
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