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		lifeisstillgood on May 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Surfboard: Audio Feature Extraction for Modern Mac... This is very off topic but why is something submitted May 2020 to preprint listed as https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08848 The 2005. confused me - is it some coincidence of random number generation or something else I missed?

jeeceebees on May 27, 2020 [–]

It's YYMM.ID I believe

Last year may was 1905.xxxxxx

solveit on May 27, 2020 | | [–]

Yep. This and the last year will be the only two confusing years for a century.

lifeisstillgood on May 27, 2020 | | [–]

aha. Why are they trying to save 2 bytes worth of space? Is it legacy ?

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