arXiv is a preprint server. It’s a place for academics to post papers before they reach the peer-reviewed journals — if ever. It’s where you get news out quickly. Science runs on the arXiv. Any pap…
  • zogwarg@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Also what is even the meaning of adding citations if you never came across the source?

    [I vaguely understand that there is a lot of window-dressing that comes with writing papers, but this is too perverse.]