Acknowledgment
4 years of Nexus attracted a lot of people. Here we would like to thank those who contributed to Nexus by various means.

The list is not complete, we might forget somebody - forgive us if that is the case! People and organizations are obfuscated, grouped by the type of their contribution, and ordered alphabetically inside each group, except the last one.

So, we are acknowledging:

- H. Bai, Inferno1, Kim Philby, lastdigof, legionella, leoz, Na-m, Oly, Red Scriptorium Collective, r0ugh_seedar, Sensevilia, vip-ey, UranusInspector for silent but a real fight with the copyright oppression
- Abo, Ary-da, Beshr, Ege, J, TK, Lau, Luka, Noz, Raffy, Vander, Zora and all ~700 active users for filling vessels of libraries
- Alya, BL, brian, chinese d, dinomod, Eye, Fr B, Rhea, Sathya, Shrine for social contribution in Telegram and other platforms
- AquariusAge, BaJaBoJl, Jeriho for coordination across pirate parties and legal groups
- IPFS, n0-computer for their incredible software, R-Clash (and Meow especially), SFS Company for consulting and several unnamed startups for consulting and contributing
- AA for aggregation work, all LibGen teams for starting this adventure decades ago and risking freedom, Sci-Hub for years of scraping, Z-Library for democratizing shadow libraries
- SweatingElsevierTiredSpringer for breaching fortresses, Galactica for her passion, Ivan Starlightov for bridging realms of shadows and kingdoms of lights, linda_transhumanista for field operations, Maximal for infrastuctural operations, Red October for legal coverage and Ultranymous for making things real and gathering us together

Cybrex Queries
I have added an additional GPU to our server and decided to keep LLM queries free for the season of the coursework and diploma projects.

Wish you a good luck with your researches. Join us for a smoke break in #communities; it might help you connect with peers.

? Chinese #freetalks

We now have a chat group (just talks about Nexus, but not requesting papers!) for Chinese-speaking users, similar to the one for Russian-speaking users.

我们现在有一个针对中文用户的聊天组（不是用于索取论文！），类似于针对俄罗斯用户的聊天组。

欢迎！https://t.me/+ONfP7KWfymIyZjA0

#freetalks | #communities | #solarmind | #hub | #libstc | #aaron | [email protected]

We are celebrating 4 years today.

The first prototypes of the Telegram bot were coded at the end of 2019. The Nexus Search channel was created on the 3rd of March, 2020.

Thank you for staying with us all this time.

?️️️️️️ Nexus March Digest ?️️️️️️

?‍♂️ The /q command now offers multilingual semantic search based on BGE-M3 embeddings. You now can search semantically using any language and in documents written in any language.

? Developers have detailed (join #communities to read)the neural networks utilized in Nexus for search and LLM.

? An HTTP API for uploading (join #freetalks to read) papers outside of Telegram is now available for testing to active contributors.

? Nexus has integrated the Worldcat catalog, enabling the upload of any book. Credit for the Worldcat scrape is attributed to Anna's Archive.

? Testing of Cybrex continues, with access to LLM granted to users who have uploaded papers and activated a Gaia subscription in their profile. Others may join #freetalks to take a look on what our LLM is capable to do.

? The Iroh protocol is advancing to the next version, incorporating our feedback. Development of software based on Iroh is ongoing to enable real-time replication. Users can join replication via the /seed command to receive freshly uploaded items, though ongoing bug fixes in progress.

? We have conducted early tests of ALMA 13B to make automatic translations of scholar papers into any language possible. We are looking for contributors with GPU-rakes to setup a production cluster for auto-translations in addition to our own GPU-rake.

#freetalks | #communities | [email protected]

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? Rewards for uploads

Historically, all requests in bots are split into two categories: requests to our internal storage and online requests that attempt to retrieve papers from the web and then forwards requests to our group of human uploaders.

We are currently testing a reward system that will allow us to regulate downloading from the web and activity in the group of uploaders. Each Nexus user will be granted 10 points that can be spent on requesting papers from Internet sources, such as fresh journal articles, books not present in any free shadow library, and standards. Points can be earned by uploading books in papers in the same group.

This does not relate to the millions of books and papers already stored in STC and relate only to new content that is not present in STC. Most users won't notice any changes here.

How the entire process is organised? You request something with *? Request* button. The requested item will be downloaded from the Internet using our methods or forwarded to the @nexus_aaron group. People with institutional access (it may be you, just join the group, read pinned message and start uploading) fulfill others' requests in the group and earn 2 points for usual papers and 3 points for books and papers from the most famous scumbag publisher. Additionally, earned points can be spent to make queries to Cybrex LLM in the near future.

Once downloaded, the paper is placed into STC vaults and will be free for further requests.

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