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Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by jbdamask »

japoneris wrote: post #79

Well, i do not understand the concept. Maybe i am too used to read paper: read the abstract to get a digest of the results, read the intro to understand the problem, skip all the rest as it is too technical or only for benchmark. In the app, i selected a few paper, as i did not know anything about the selecter paper, comparing frog A doing magic stuff is helpless. Yet, the interface is great, i think this can be impr…

I hear you.

For me personally, the pain point is being interested in more papers than I can consume so I’ve gotten into the habit of loading papers into LLMs as a way to quickly triage. This app is an extension of my own habit.

I also have friends without scientific backgrounds who are interested in topics of research papers but can’t understand them. The reason for the cutesy name, Now I Get It!, is because the prompt steers the response to a layperson

Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by jbdamask »

rovr138 wrote: post #74
leke wrote: post #71

Do you happen to know if LLMs have issues reading PDFs? Would they prefer EPUB format for example?

Everything has issues reading the content of PDFs natively. It's a format for displaying/rendering. Not for storing format in a way that's easy to parse for the text/content inside. Is this one storing text or storing coordinates for where to draw a line for the letter 'l'? Is that an 'l' or a line? The best way to do this is rendering it to an image and using the image. Either through models that can directly work w…

Agree. Curious if you’ve played with landing.ai?

Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by mpalmer »

Man. I know you just made this for your own convenience, and all the big LLMs can one-shot this, but if you found a way to improve on the bog-standard LLM "webpage" design (inject some real human taste, experience and design sensibility), you'd get a few bucks from me- per paper.

Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by jbdamask »

mpalmer wrote: post #84

Man. I know you just made this for your own convenience, and all the big LLMs can one-shot this, but if you found a way to improve on the bog-standard LLM "webpage" design (inject some real human taste, experience and design sensibility), you'd get a few bucks from me- per paper.

Very cool. Appreciate it.

Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by jazzpush2 »

jbdamask wrote: post #53
ukuina wrote: post #44

Neat! I've previously used something similar: https://www.emergentmind.com/

Cool. I hadn't seen Emergent Mind

It's very bad in my experience. It hallucinates like crazy - e.g. something simple as enumerating the correct hidden dimension for a transformer-based model (same across all layers) it gets wrong often.

Re: Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages

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Post by jazzpush2 »

I like the idea here, but the final product is just so far from what good interactive articles/explanations actually look like. E.g., this style of article:

- https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/

- any article from distill.pub

- any piece from NYT

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