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I think it's worth noting that EleutherAI is a grassroots collection of researchers, which distinguishes it from academia/industry labs. As part of their work on democratizing AI, …

I'm curious -- what does HN think of factor investing [0]? It has been shown over long periods of time to outperform the total market, and has seen many new ETFs available. Does an…

Currently (at least for the-eye) it's about IPFS's barrier of entry. I expect LibGen's case to be similar. Most people don't know about it, and if even those that knew about it had…

Microsoft's project Silica [0] may hopefully provide really long term, large capacity archive grade storage on earth. I wonder what effects interstellar radiation has on them. [0] …

There are ways to do so. The archive is made up of many, many torrents (I believe it's a monthly if not biweekly update of the database). If you have the storage/bandwidth availabi…

There are groups behind data curation as well, though it is much harder. LibGen sees an addition rate of about 230 GBs per month, while SciMag's is around 1.10 TBs per month. We sh…

This is an extremely important effort. The LibGen archive contains around 32 TBs of books (by far the most common being scientific books and textbooks, with a healthy dose of non-S…

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Well, in fact, they did. It's why pretty much every Sovietology book pre-1991 is now rarely recommended. The Soviet archives were opened with the fall of the USSR, allowing histori…

The point is that in this case Rummel doesn't even attempt to be objective. You can be biased, everyone is. A real historian, someone who is respected by his peers, actively tries …

Then you can agree with me when saying that it is something worth attempting. It may be a great alternative, or another failure. We won't know unless we try! (It was nice to have t…

I'm really sorry an AskHistorians thread is not good enough for you. Let me paste Jonathan Smele's remark about Rummel's work (Smele is known for his compiled bibliography on the R…

I don't want to make this longer than needed; I don't know anything about die Linke and MLPD to speak about those. I would disagree about the relationship between the USSR and the …

No, no historian thinks he will find the definitive truth. My point is that there are valid historians (I only know about a few fields, but you can see which historians are valid b…

Political control of the economy by a vanguard party leads to an enormous concentration of power, I agree. But I also disagree that is about all socialist nations: I can only argue…

A quick guide for neuroglancer: _spacebar_ on one area: fullscreen the area L: change colors X: remove colors double click one neuron: select the neuron ctrl-mousewheel: zoom in/ou…

I know democide has been mostly coined by Rummel. Do you by chance refer to him? If so, could I ask for your sources? I know that Rummel's data has been heavily criticized by many …

>So what what is left there? You are referencing countries which were either part of the USSR (Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), or countries that were part of the…

I don't usually like to discuss these topics, but I want to point out a few things. First of all, communism and in general left-wing politics are viewed with a significant bias in …

I expected this would take a few more years, I have no words to describe how excited I am about this news. Drosophila's 135.000 neurons... compare it to the manual segmentation of …