Sooooo a friend of mine who definately isnt me because they are no where near as smart or good looking as me googled this topic and searched for an understanding of what any of this is in regards to but the only resources ~~I~~ they found were waaaaaaaay to difficult for ~~me~~ them to understand. Anyone care to sum this up for ~~me~~ my friend or advisement as for what ~~I~~ they shoulf search for to find more information? All ~~I~~ they got was this article from columbia, a similar page from stanford, then the rest were all from the same site: https://arxiv.org/.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Looks like it is not:

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date.

Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates

For 12/1 to 12/31 the numbers were
2022: 800
2023: 811
2024: 815
2025: 855

For 1/1 to 2/1
2022:510
2023:490
2024:501
2025:544
2026:617

For 2/1 to 2/15
2022:255
2023:221
2024:280
2025:276
2026:311

These do show significant increases year to year for the last couple months, but not the near doubling indicated by the other numbers. The hep-th arxiv apocalypse is not here yet.