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Comment I know I'm cynical (Score 2) 125

Based on the companies behind code.org, cynical me tends to read between the lines on this two ways.

1. "We need lots more in-country people to go into computer- and AI-related fields - enough to drive the cost of those jobs down as far as possible."

2. "Despite our constantly beating the AI drum, most people don't seem to care about our AI products at all. Maybe we just need more headlines with AI in them..."

Comment Re:Paywalls were not their choices to start with (Score 1) 98

IYou'll be hard pressed to find a researcher who favors paywalls. The problem is many of the most prestigious journals use them. This leads to a chicken-and-egg problem for researchers, as they either get their best work in the paywalled journals - where it gets read by more people - or they put it into less prestigious journals that are not paywalled. For years there was no choice; it was paywalled or less read.

In addition to that, there's also the problem that publishing in those less-prestigious journals may not count as much towards getting academic tenure - compared to getting a paper into, say, Science or Nature (depending on your field).

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