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Re: The shortest papers ever published (2016)

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As a rule, when trying to convey information, I try to write and speak plainly. I try to avoid jargon. I have found many academic papers in the faux sciences to be extremely dense and full of terms that are only known to the priests of that arcane subject (still subsidized by taxes as if the result is a common good). If you have a point, say it. There is no need to write in legalese. When I see supposed research writ…

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Re: The shortest papers ever published (2016)

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When I saw this paper about “Royalactin” in Nature [1], it was fascinating subject matter for one but I was impressed that it was a single author non theoretical original research article in a high impact journal. I thought it was baller. Have been trying to search for anything similar published in recent times and have come across empty. I feel it’s emblematic how impossible it is to make any great biology breakthrough nowadays as a lone wolf. But one can aspire!

The guy who published it seems kooky as well. Would love to interview him some day!

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10093

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Vaguely related but I remember the tale of an author on vacation after publication of his latest novel. He telegramed his publisher to enquire about reception: “?” Publisher replied: “!”

Victor Hugo inquiring if Les Misérables was selling well.

Re: The shortest papers ever published (2016)

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I was hoping that LLMs would help with "writer's block", but their limited context window has been a PITA. Has anyone have had any success with ROPE scaled models or claude 100k?

Have you tried MemGPT or RAG in general? I'm not convinced long context alone will solve the issue (at least not very soon), some kind of retrieval and especially self-retrieval is good.
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