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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

QrXiv? Someone please explain to my smooth brain what’s going on?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Arxiv is a site for archiving and accessing scientific papers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The caveat being that these papers are preprints, aka not peer reviewed. It's got a lot of gems, but also a metric fuck ton of garbage. Use it as a starting place, not a finishing one, like Wikipedia... but it's sometimes even less reliable. If it's not your specially, find better sources.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah. So this is what they train LLMs on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Yes, actually. This is definately a source they use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

At least it doesn't have a paywall though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, thanks. I thought it was a Roman AR-14

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

arXiv, not QrXiv.

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.