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Different disciplines began regularly posting their papers to the arXiv at different times. The order was (very) roughly

High-energy theory ~1992

Other physics theory ~1994

Physics experiment ~1996

Math ~2000

CS ~2008

Some disciplines flipped nearly overnight, while others took several years of slow growth before posting to the arXiv become the default.

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Advertisements masquerading as science ~2016 (2023 for sure)

I feel like you're calling out deep learning.

100%

Of course. Sophisticated marketing campaigns have material covering the full range of audiences from bikini clad women, to scientific papers.

Ahh, this does explain it somewhat (I'm mostly a CS-background and econ-background person). Thank you for adding your knowledge.

CS was surely earlier, it was quite widely used by 2006 in my recollection

Like I said, it's very rough since the transition happened over several year. I dunno, you can eyeball this plot; if anything I'd say it didn't become default in CS until after 2010:

https://info.arxiv.org/help/stats/2021_by_area/index.html

Thank you for linking that!

Do you happen to know what "eess" is?

Electrical engineering and systems science. You can find all the abbreviations on the home page (which is easy to ctrl-f for)

https://arxiv.org/

or this taxonomy page (which annoyingly has to be clicked at each level, but is maybe easier to read)

https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy

Thank you very much :)

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