Tagged “research”

when more familar with a topic, we use more jargon and write less directly

any field with “behavioral” in its name is not real

real-time, controllable deepfakes ready for virtual cameras injection. The future is terrifying

A beautiful writeup of some of the many issues of touchscreens.

mirror of referenced video

Saved for if Google kills Scholar

why am I reading about notetaking tools again

My (non-expert) opinion is still in favor of fractional dosing. Really needed more non-industry research on it though.

brains are weird. This quote in particular fascinated me:

That seems exciting. I’ve long wondered if in 50 years terms like “emotion” or “reason” will be obsolete. Some future genius will have come up with an integrative paradigm that more accurately captures who we are and how we think.

In general, pornography use trended downward over the pandemic, for both men and women. Problematic pornography use trended downward for men and remained low and unchanged in women. Collectively, these results suggest that many fears about pornography use during pandemic-related lockdowns were largely not supported by available data.

Can't exactly remember where I found this, but some interesting looking publications on sound and music

From 2019!

Summary of recent Sci-Hub legal challenges

I really wonder how this is going to play out. For those who don't follow the current situation with Sci-Hub, Alexandra (the creator and likely the sole operator) of Sci-Hub shut down the part of the website ("the magical proxy") that is responsible for fetching the papers that were not previously retrieved. This was done to comply with the request of the Indian court, as described in the article.
As a result, any papers published in 2021 (and some of the rarer, older ones, that nobody tried to access in the past) are not retrievable by Sci-Hub. The user only gets to see a white screen.

This is meant to be a temporary measure, but it's been going on since December of last year (due to various court hearing delays), and the desperation in online communities like the r/scihub subreddit has been palpable [1,2].

Interesting stuff. I have no real background in this but still found the article and experiment outline very readable.

Might try this out for some project organisation. Reluctant to use this for all notetaking due to editor lock-in - I can't use VSCode on this low-RAM laptop.

Paper from 1989(!) looking at different methods people use to find information. There are six main categories, most online search continues to only use one or two