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[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

QrXiv? Someone please explain to my smooth brain what’s going on?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Arxiv is a site for archiving and accessing scientific papers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The caveat being that these papers are preprints, aka not peer reviewed. It's got a lot of gems, but also a metric fuck ton of garbage. Use it as a starting place, not a finishing one, like Wikipedia... but it's sometimes even less reliable. If it's not your specially, find better sources.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah. So this is what they train LLMs on.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

Yes, actually. This is definately a source they use.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Ah, thanks. I thought it was a Roman AR-14