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What happens if (a) the scholarly sphere is continually expanding and (b) no researcher has time to be ripping apart anything? That also suggests (c) Researchers delegate reviewing…

I believe LLMs have the potential to (for good or ill, depending on your view) destroy academic journals. The scenario I am thinking of is academic A submitting a manuscript to an …

ColdML H(o)tML for websites -> ColdML when archived. Also, connotations of cold storage, deep freeze preservation etc.

I've used a number of Philips SA2208 8Gb players, with headphone jack, for this. The simple display seems to get patchy after a while, but the music playing function seems to work …

Looking for a Thunderbird plugin that can be used to, e.g. for any selected inbox message, quickly set a date when that specific message will be automatically moved to another fold…

Disclaimer (does it really need one?): On the first link above: I shared responsibility for the menial editing, checking and manual indexing of the entire book volume.

Not sure. I know that the conglomerate Outokumpu once had a pilot plant with high-Tc superconducting magnets deployed in the Amazon region somewhere ('Ice in the jungle'? Hah, hold…

One summary of some of the basic technologies can be found in: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-8263-6_... and cited references therein. A more recent variation…

Efficient extraction of metals (and materials that can be broken down to useful precursors) from landfills and 'e-waste'. My PhD supervisor worked for years before he retired, on, …

Hello mdasen, Thanks for your input. Self-hosting is pretty much what the owner (Jan Labanowski) has been doing so far, with all the accompanying problems noted by yourself and kxr…

Thanks for your input, kxrm. CCL.net is a one-man operation and the owner (Jan Labanowski) has been running it for many years and has seen many if not all of the problems you menti…

Wow, that was fast! Thanks again!

request sent: many thanks for alerting me to this issue!

As a result of a discussion on one of the longest-running academic/scientific mailing list servers I know, the Computational Chemistry List (CCL.net), I want to consult the HN hive…