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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern 20h (At least when commercial publishers offer "manuscript editing" services, presumably as pay-for-play for non-ESL/Third World paper churners & mills, it mostly just seems like it pads garbage journals no one has to read. Putting ad paywalls on notable published papers, though...)
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern 20h Did you think it was not possible for commercial academic publisher websites to get worse? My friends, I bear grim tidings: Oxford University Press has discovered that when academic IPs want to download PDFs, they can serve popup ads:
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Jun 5 But 4 or 5 no longer add any important mechanics. At 3, you have efficient short matches like 'best of 3'. At 4, the outcomes start overlapping and becoming redundant, without speeding up matches. (Maybe related to base-3/e?)
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Jun 5 I think it's because 2 forces better/worse, so can require a lot of games to ever approximate equality, but 3 allows better/worse/same outcomes and ties are an important mechanic for games. Otherwise, every encounter requires you to either be perfect, or suffer constant attrition
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Jun 5 You obviously can't go lower than 2 choices like matching-pennies (1 choice is no choice), but why not 2? Or 4, like rock-paper-scissors-lizard? Or 5? They have surprisingly complicated Nash, too, so they're not boring or trivial: . Why way less popular?
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Jun 5 Trying to help my sister at a fighting game in a dream, I explained to her, "like all of them, it's just rock-paper-scissors—high attacks, low attacks, and blocks. RPS is everywhere." "But why is it everywhere‽" she asked. Uh... good question. After all, matching-pennies works
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern Jun 1 Startup culture trains people to do instead of think; this is why podcast interviews are so often the first, last, and best documentation about how a company really was.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 He was banned in 2012, but it's unclear how many falsehoods were left, whether he was using any other socks or anon IPs, why, what he has spent the past 12 years doing, or how far his claims have been carried by citogenesis or fellow Islamic ideologues ().
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 If you ever feel confident about what you 'know' about the Islamic medieval period bc you "just love reading Wikipedia", you may want to know that in 2010, a crazy person spent 2 years falsifying hundreds of claims of Islamic invention, everything from p-n junctions to…
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 And today I wake up to the pleasant news that they fixed it! It's still bad, but at least now it's not the single worst & most broken website for copy-pasting basic metadata... What a pity they don't make billions of dollars annually & so can't afford decent publishing tech. 😢
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 Then they asked for video of it not working in Chrome, after I had repeatedly said it worked in Chrome, for a bug report whose title was "authors cannot be copy-pasted in Firefox"! After I explained this request was nonsense on stilts and utterly irrelevant, they went quiet.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 They then sent me a customer satisfaction survey, asking if I was satisfied. I was not. I also checked the "may contact me for further information" option. They did. Their suggestion was that they had tested Chrome & it worked (as I already said); use Chrome. Uh... no.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 I eventually got tired of this & contacted them back in January explaining the problem, including screenshots & Firefox version (up to date, a week old). I got a reply suggesting that I upgrade my Firefox. 🤦‍♂️ 5 months later, I got an email saying they were unable to fix it.
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    • 𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫 @gwern May 31 One off-site improvement: Firefox users can now copy-paste author lists on Elsevier websites (specifically ). Yes, that didn't work before, for several years. You couldn't select the authors on the HTML, you had to go to the PDF or find another source!
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