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This paper argues that frontier models approximate tenure-level academic outputs in social science and humanities topics with "minimal engineering effort". They developed some custom agent skills to extract the qualities of individual scholars from their published works.
Are you planning or writing a new article, and thinking about where to publish it?
Skip the musty for-profit journals of yore, and publish your work in an open-access journal. Directory of Open Access Journals, https://doaj.org/, is a great tool to search for OA journals.
I heartily recommend a browse through DOAJ in any case, you can do a keyword search, for example. You might find a nice new scientific community to boot!
There's roughly two ways I've acquired skills in programming languages in the past: the "hard" way for writing code (e.g., "Learn Python the Hard Way"), and the "easy" way for learning to read a new programming language by skimming the language specs or leafing through a book on the topic (e.g., "The Supercollider Book").
I suppose there's a third way now for me: Reading up on software architecture design (e.g., stuff like "500 lines or less"), so that co-creation skills with large language models are improved?
For example, Yoav Rubin's article on "An Archaeology-Inspired Database" in 500 lines or less really made me think about Clojure in a new way.
Thoughts on this?