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Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
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Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#2If you download the PDF, you can annotate PDFs locally. Why not do it that way?
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#3If you download the PDF, you can annotate PDFs locally. Why not do it that way?
It's about the crowd-sourcing aspect of genius.com.
Experts in the various fields could annotate papers in order to make it easier for non-science-savvy people to get what is going on.
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#4I believe the "Librarian" Chrome extension - https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian - from Fermat's Library should do that, but I'm not certain if the comments are shared across users.
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#5If you download the PDF, you can annotate PDFs locally. Why not do it that way?
It's about the crowd-sourcing aspect of genius.com. Experts in the various fields could annotate papers in order to make it easier for non-science-savvy people to get what is going on.
This is an interesting idea. I think the problem with such an app is that reviewers and publishers have sort of a monopoly on papers, which makes it hard from a business perspective
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's about the crowd-sourcing aspect of genius.com. Experts in the various fields could annotate papers in order to make it easier for non-science-savvy people to get what is going on.
This is an interesting idea. I think the problem with such an app is that reviewers and publishers have sort of a monopoly on papers, which makes it hard from a business perspective
Isn't it similar with music lyrics and music publishing companies?
I don't think the legal point would be the biggest setback.
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#7I believe the "Librarian" Chrome extension - https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian - from Fermat's Library should do that, but I'm not certain if the comments are shared across users.
I tried it, yet it doesn't seem to be used a lot.
For one paper I was interested in, I found a YouTube-video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY5PvZrJhLE&feature=youtu.be)
I wonder if usage could see a spike if it was possible to issue monetary rewards to annotators as a reader.
What do you think?
Re: Ask HN: Does a genius.com-like app to annotate ArXiv papers exist?
#8I believe the "Librarian" Chrome extension - https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian - from Fermat's Library should do that, but I'm not certain if the comments are shared across users.
btw, the comments seem to be shared across users, there just don't seem to be a lot of users.