Laeserin on Nostr: I am here because I want to foster access to documentation, literature, and ...

I am here because I want to foster access to documentation, literature, and scientific information for the entire planet. Anyone who has access to a cell phone with a mobile or Internet connection should have the entire library of the world at his disposal. Break down all barriers. Check all of our privileges. Free the information. Foster discussion.

And if some harried surgeon in the jungles of Congo has something to contribute to a research team in Oxford, he should be able to click, "add comment" in the review section of their newest paper, and upload his field data, right from his cell phone, from his field clinic, in the middle of an Ebola outbreak. And they should be able to just hit the ♥️, so that he immediately knows they received that information and can go back to doing his job.

This is what we are building. This matters. This keeps me going.
This is Nostr.

quoting
nevent1q…2304

Trying to parse through the PDFs has highlighted for me, how much knowledge is effectively trapped in that most-confining format. It forces all data into a strict corset and people are using massive servers running complex AI models to extract that information, on demand, for human consumption. Or they highlight or copy-paste little snippets, which means you need to display the entire PDF page and then the snippets, as well. How big is your monitor, bro?

They do this, leaving the data in PDFs, because PDFs print out precisely the same on all A4-sized paper. But who even owns a printer? I own one, but it isn't hooked up. It's been offline, for months, and nobody misses it.

Who even owns a PC or laptop? Almost everyone owns a smart phone, tho. The information needs to be formatted for reading and commenting on smart phones, and then reformatted to a printer version _when and if you go to print it_.

We're just going to extract it all, at once, for human consumption on any monitor on any machine. And then you don't need a fancy computer or a subscription, to get to the data. The data is then on the relays -- or even, on _your_ relay, on _your_ phone -- and it's written in plain text.

You can then just believe your own lying eyes.