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More recently, new sites like Sci-Hub and LibGen have achieved far faster and more complete results by playing outside the rules and essentially making every academic paper in the world free of charge, to anyone, at any time, in any country – including poor people in poor places without access to expensive journal subscriptions. Let's call this the... See more

Microsoft introduced Phi 1.5 – a compact AI model with multimodal capabilities, meaning it can process images as well as text. Despite being significantly smaller than OpenAI's GPT-4, with only 1.3 billion parameters, it demonstrates advanced features like those found in larger models. Phi 1.5 is open-source, emphasizing the trend towards efficient

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Here’s the deal: for virtually every new distribution channel or new publishing format since the seventeenth century when the ubiquity of movable type allowed publishers to pre-sell long expensive works in low-cost installments known as “Fascicles,” the early adopting consumers have been the book addicts, the readers who have not been able to get e

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