Monthly Archives: March 2024

LM Studio

26 Tuesday Mar 2024

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Run private offline ‘chat’ AIs on Windows, without wasting a day on a frustratingly complex and fiddly Python-based setup and install. The free LM Studio makes discovery, downloading and running chat LLM AI’s as easy as installing any other Windows software. A good graphics card is required to run your selected AI chat. Note also that the LM Studio wrapper requires a PC with a processor that supports AVX2, if not one with a dedicated NPU. There’s also a beta release that supports older plain AVX processors.

Researcher to Reader conference

08 Friday Mar 2024

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I’m pleased to learn about London’s annual Researcher to Reader Conference, which focusses on getting research to interested readers. Information Today has a detailed report of the February 2024 event…

even today, in 2024, we don’t have consistent metadata to identify the article type in many cases with certainty (is it a research article? A review article? An editorial?) nor even the corresponding author of an article, let alone knowing how much a university is paying publishers for APCs to publish articles. Would any other industry tolerate such vagueness?