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How can I generate PDF metadata from LaTeX? I am writing a document using LaTeX and generating PDF. Can anybody tell me how I can generate the PDF metadata, e.g. author or title, from LaTeX? On Windows XP, I am using MikTex's texify to gen...

The problems of the modern academic 😄🤭

If created with LaTeX, you can set the PDF metadata with `\pdfinfo`
tex.stackexchange.com/a/26531

I am teaching a course on system administration (for the first time!) next semester at my uni (Trento, Italy). We will start from bash, go through docker and end on IaC. Can I screenshot this thread and put it in the slides of the first lesson?

As someone who is putting sweat and tears into doing research and publishing this makes me livid.

Who isn't excited by a nice COUNTDWAND

I read the book many years ago, it was in the "New arrivals" section of my university library. I enjoyed it a lot!

From now on, this video will be my go-to answer to "... but what do we need math in real life for?"

Humbled and honored to announce that this paper won the Best Paper Award at #RecSys2025. Check it out in the proceedings:
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Thanks to my amazing co-authors @giovannidetoni.bsky.social, @erasmopurif.bsky.social, Emilia Gomez, Bruno Lepri and @andreapasserini.bsky.social.

Mapathon #OpenStreetMap Trento with #SpeckAndTech

Tortured phrases in the article https://pubpeer.com/publications/1497EA7D4D157F282F3910AB471A1B

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Good afternoon, it's begging season! This is what I have for a living right now! Deep insights into the structure of the AI bubble and also point-and-laugh shitposts, daily! And videos! Please join the Patreon! Your $5 a month will help so much! We got T-shirts too!

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Check out our latest pre-print (to appear at RecSys 2025, @recsys.bsky.social)

All retracted articles should immediately become open access.

A huge milestone was achieved today in the EU towards our common understanding of risks in the online world. If you are a researcher interested in studying societal risks related to very large online platforms and search engines, this is for you!
#DSA
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

Abstract Wikipedia is not AI.

Some women, notably Judit Polgar (the strongest woman chess player of all time) are opposed to the separation, because it implies that women cannot be at the same level of men.

In fact, there are basically two types of tournaments with regards to gender: women's only and "open", which is for everybody. By the same logic, FIDE created women's titles (from Woman Fide Master (WFM), to Woman Grandmaster (WGM)) with lower requirements. 2/

Also not an expert, but in short, also yes. Women's tournament have been created because historically, women's level in chess is lower than men's and it is a way to (1) encourage participation; (2) create a safer space for participants. 1/

At #ICWSM? Here's a starter pack for you :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Check also "Bootstrapping Social Networks: Lessons from Bluesky Starter Packs" ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Honorable Mention for the Test of Time Award to "It's a man's Wikipedia? Assessing gender inequality in an online encyclopedia" by @clauwa.bsky.social et al. @icwsm.bsky.social

A U.S. judge ruled that while Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books for AI training is #fairuse, storing pirated copies isn't. It’s a mixed decision, bad for both sides, but a potential win for AI platforms overall. aifray.com/claude-ai-ma...

🎤 Day 2 kicks off with Richard Rogers on algorithmic auditing

🎤 Silvia Merisio from @ec.europa.eu on the DSA’s impact on Social Data Science and an insightful panel discussion with Oana Goga and Krishna Gummadi, moderated by @frapierri.bsky.social

Going to www.overleaf.com results in Error: Server Error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds.

Nothing says upcoming NeurIPS deadline like Overleaf being down.

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free.

Hello, it's me, talking about getting data from PDFs again.

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Nothing to see here, just Mr. TC (I just looked up his name, it's Alec) laying out a beautiful piece about algorithms and how we interact with them.

synthwave style image with starry background, grid ground, a prism. It says "man I love archivists preserving the web"

This is my Internet Archive Scholar fan art <3

How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ In a world of publish or perish, academics will too often turn to our helpful robot friends and ask a chatbot to write the text of a paper for them. Sometimes they don’t check too closely if the re…

How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’

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Probably an effect of "Publish or Perish"

(source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/scie...)

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We miss you every day, Aaron.