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Re:Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful by chronic3u9 on Saturday August 04, 2018 @07:06PM (#17688870)
> Perhaps a blunt question, but what took scientists so long to figure this out?

The other science disciplines (mostly the life sciences), saw the AI/ML field greatly advance with their open research (e.g. arxiv, Github) and now want to copy it.

And yes, it was specifically AI/ML. Look at IEEE -- they're holding back the entire EE field. The ACM holds back the other areas of CS.

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Re:Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful by kgwgk on Sunday August 05, 2018 @09:44AM (#17691278)
CS may be the faster growing field in the arXiv over the last decade but it was relatively late to the party. https://arxiv.org/help/stats/2017_by_area/index
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Re:Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful by Kliment on Sunday August 05, 2018 @06:41AM (#17690654)
From an outside perspective it appeared to me that the leaders in this were actually the physics and mathematics community, rather than ML.
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Re:Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful by haeffin on Sunday August 05, 2018 @05:46AM (#17690527)
Physics and other disciplines were broadly using arxiv before ML did it. When I switched from physics to ML (CS) I was surprised that arxiv isn't used more.
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