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by Legend2440 718 days ago
Is arxiv just a blogging platform now? This isn't a research paper.
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I think you misunderstand arxiv, blogging, and research papers.

(I've used/done extensively the three mentioned things before, including blogging in a research context)

arxiv is a preprint server. Blog posts can, sometimes, play the same role as research preprints. Research papers are fundamentally about having a _structured conversation_ about a topic.

This paper is arxiv at its best.

You should see some of Schmidhuber's stuff, he uses scientific journals as his blogging host.