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...for three major scientific journals. Writing a review takes a lot of time, and sometimes is exausting, if you get involved with reviewing a paper that is sound, but whose authors are stubborn in making some modifications to make the paper more readable. According to my experience, the level of refereers varies a lot. I realized that some papers that I rejected would have been praised by other reviewers, so the point is not if being paid or not could decrease the level of scientific journals. However getting some kind of compensation, given the required effort, I think it would be appreciated. Rather than money, other stuff like journal subscriptions or free books from the editors could be a good alternative.

...since several years. You just need to pass a multiple-choice exam. Being able to code is however a nice have, and quite fun.
Oh....you mean a different kind of code from Morse code, maybe ?!?

video here.

Data center. For sale. Never used.

...certified xkcd random numers generator.

...your country should either boost chocolate consumption or open more IKEA stores!

...looking at the disasters that a group of engineers did to a 20 years old fool-proof, top-notch signal processing chain, I second their replacement with AI. It can't get any worse.

All we had on our PDP-11 was RSX-11

...xkcd quote

Maybe he was wrong about energy....dtdE < h/2pi

...this could be a big improvement. Italian press is filled with fake news, poorly written prose, irrelevant comments, AI can just improve it.

I used the very same method to look at payrolls in our company. They never realized they could be snooped, and it worked until they moved to SAP some years ago.

Call me old fashioned (and it wouldn't be the first time), but I will stick to my De Lorean, thank you.

xkcd quote.