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

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

#91

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

That decision-tree page is killer!

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

#92
Thanks to everyone who tried this today and those who provided feedback. I really appreciate your time. Here are some stats:

100 papers processed.

Cost breakdown:

LLM cost $64

AWS cost $0.0003

Claude's editorial comment about this breakdown, "For context, the Anthropic API cost ($63.32) is roughly 200,000x the AWS infrastructure cost. The AWS bill is a rounding error compared to the LLM spend."

Category breakdown:

Computer and Information Sciences 41%

Biological and Biomedical Sciences 15%

Health Sciences 7%

Mathematics and Statistics 5%

Geosciences, Atmospheric, and Ocean Sciences 5%

Physical Sciences 5%

Other 22%

There were a handful of errors due to papers >100 pages. If there were others, I didn't see them (but please let me know).

I'd be interested in hearing from people, what's one thing you would change/add/remove from this app?

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

#94
post #30

I’d love if this can be self-hosted, but i understand you may want to monetize it. I’ll keep checking back.

In some other apps, I've toyed around with charging for code access. Basically, a flat rate gets you into to the repo. Would that interest you? Personally, I hate subscription pricing and think we need more innovation in pricing models.

Yes I would be interested in that for sure, and I don’t have an issue with paying for the AI backend API too.

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

#97

Great solution! but... Error Daily processing limit reached. Please try again tomorrow.

Sorry you hit this. 100 papers were processed today. Cost to me was $63.

Make this a paid service! This could go viral

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

#98

How do you evaluate whether users actually understand better, rather than just feel like they do?

I don't. Too new and I haven't fully committed to this idea yet.

For what it's worth it worked for me.

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

#99
post #14

Some ideas for seeing more examples: 1. Add a donate button. Some folks probably just want to see more examples (or an example in their field, but don't have a specific paper in mind.) 2. Have a way to nominate papers to be examples. You could do this in the HN thread without any product changes. This could give good coverage of different fields and uncover weaknesses in the product.

Really clever ideas! Maybe a combo where I keep a list and automatically process as funds become available.

Could make a list of pending papers and allow others to pay for them.
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