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Mon Mar 02 20:21:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I was doing some work, came across a video of derps derping at Von N. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbllFHBQM4
Mon Mar 02 19:04:03 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel yeh, i see it.
Mon Mar 02 19:03:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> mircea_popescu: the point I originally made is that they're not funding people to convert .pdfs etc. becuase thats not the kind of people they are. I shouldn't have sent 19:04, it adds nothing to the conversation.
Mon Mar 02 19:01:11 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel but you wanted them to act on the principle of x.
Mon Mar 02 19:00:18 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> 19:01 << you don't have to /say/ that. "We think this is a serious overreach of federal power, and ..."
Mon Mar 02 18:57:10 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 02-03-2015 18:13:59; gabriel_laddel: simply on the principle of "fuck the system, it sucks"
Mon Mar 02 18:45:55 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> lol I dunno
Mon Mar 02 18:43:57 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> yw http://imgur.com/GCzmjOx,Eat0ZpP
Mon Mar 02 18:39:12 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> !up gabriel_laddel
Mon Mar 02 18:14:30 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Even if Aaron was only a useful idiot.
Mon Mar 02 18:13:59 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> simply on the principle of "fuck the system, it sucks"
Mon Mar 02 18:13:44 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> Anyways, this is what I have in mind when I say "new format" - and no, I don't think the 'adults' would be happy about a program that converts arbitary PDFs into this sort of program, as evidenced by no bezzle barons funding Aaron Swartz's legal defense.
Mon Mar 02 18:11:52 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> all the data used to perform the computations should have a "warning - unlinked <location of data, who is responsible for it>" unless a human resolved it to the correct source and bundled it along with the paper
Mon Mar 02 18:11:18 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> I should have better defined what I mean by "useful format": all the citations must be clickable, and when you click on them, they open up the linked paper, or tell you where it is located (i.e., behind a paywall). I don't want plaintext output, but rather a better format with the exact same formatting as the original pdf that allows me to click, drag-and-drop and add new content. The authors etc should all be progr
Mon Mar 02 18:11:18 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ammatically accessible "new content" should be anything I wish - 3D etc.
Mon Mar 02 18:10:22 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> <<
Mon Mar 02 18:10:20 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> 14:16:34 BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed
Mon Mar 02 18:10:20 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> scanner sometime.
Mon Mar 02 18:06:14 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> !up gabriel_laddel
Mon Mar 02 01:45:21 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: it was quite clear in '43 that third reich would fall apart << is this some bit of original research ?