• SpookyAlex03@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I wonder if this was inspired by a recent xkcd?

    *removed externally hosted image*

    At text: People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Not only is this paper real: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01393.pdf

    But they actually made it practical:

    We have implemented two ways to reveal the actual names present in an overlapping stack, when viewing a PDF file on a computer.

    First, hovering over the stacked names should pop up a tooltip with the authors listed in their original order, as shown in Figure 1.

    This feature works on many desktop PDF viewers (e.g., Acrobat, Evince, Firefox, VSCode), but notably not Chrome, Edge, Safari, or MacOS Preview. It also does not work on mobile devices we tested (probably because they lack a natural notion of “hovering”).