• Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Five maps so far. Is someone doing this by hand, the hard way? I figured it was an AI someone programmed, but if it’s an individual or small team, big respect. Very neat project.

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      12 days ago

      They provide links to their github that explains their whole methodology. This is a scientific effort and is as transparent and well-documented as a project can be. They provide the code so you can understand the exact mechanics at play or just fork the project if you want to take the work in a different direction.

      It’s a great project and long overdue. I personally think scientific journals are incredibly outdated and haven’t been necessary for a couple of decades. Just put your work on a stable web site and cut out the parasites at the journals.

    • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 days ago

      AI would probably be pretty useful for this. You’d have to assume most of the “answers” are in the abstract, so you could just build one to scrape academic texts. Use an RAG so it doesn’t hallucinate, maybe. Idk if that violates some T&C nonsense that doing it by hand doesn’t though.