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HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

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262 points el3ctron | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nateroling ◴[06 Dec 25 16:06 UTC] No.46174350[source]▶
Seeing the Gemini 3 capabilities, I can imagine a near future where file formats are effectively irrelevant.
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s0rce ◴[06 Dec 25 17:33 UTC] No.46175045[source]▶
Can you elaborate? Are you never reading papers directly but only using Gemini to reformat or combine/summarize?
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1. nateroling ◴[06 Dec 25 18:21 UTC] No.46175382[source]▶
I mean that when a computer can visually understand a document and reformat and reinterpret it in any imaginable way, who cares how it’s stored? When a png or a pdf or a markdown doc can all be be read and reinterpreted into an infographic or a database or an audiobook or an interactive infographic the original format won’t matter.