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That's actually something we are working on. We are working with verified researchers in the field (industry and academic) to help surface good papers and foster an open discussion.
Can I have a beta when it's ready? I've been thinking about this for a while and I like to think that I could provide useful input.
http://feedly.com/smcleod/blogs
That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.
I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.
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Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds: tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself. I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).
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I use a combo of two tools:
Feedly - https://feedly.com RSS feed subscription management.
Features:
- Keyword alerts
- Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url
- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)
- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content
- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration
- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)
- Backup feeds to Dropbox
- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.
- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!
- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)
- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)
2. Reeder - http://reederapp.com
A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client.
- The client apps aren't cheap but damn they're good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps
- Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other
- I save articles using Reeder's clip to Evernote functionality... a lot
- Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course)
- Good customisable 'share with' options
- Looks pleasant to me
- Easy manual import an export just like Feedly
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- Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)
Edit: Formatting - god I wish HN just used markdown
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That's actually something we are working on. We are working with verified researchers in the field (industry and academic) to help surface good papers and foster an open discussion.
What about collecting tweets from verified researchers? It could help getting to critical mass. You could even consider papers tweeted by researchers that are followed by your known researchers, and so on, with the right weighting (something resembling pagerank). With the right weighting this could really boost the size and quality of your dataset.
Right now we are working on helping the community surface information and working with verified researchers to build their "curated" lists for different topics.
I hope it catches on.
Others have tried and they don't get enough traffic to get it to take off but since low levels of hosting are free, I could just keep it out there for a long time.
I wrote http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/ (code is open source on github: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver ) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It's meant to…
Wouldn't you miss a lot of important publications when just checking arxiv?
The publishing culture from the life sciences is toxic and will be avoided by the AI community.
As a software developer, my effectiveness doesn't depend on up-to-the-minute knowledge of what's happening in my field. It's more useful to pursue a deeper understanding of the fundamentals.
There are some obvious exceptions on the cutting edge of technology (VR etc) but developers in my position care more about reliably making reliable software that earns (or saves) money. To this end, it's usually better to apply techniques and technologies that are already somewhat mature. I think this is more typical.
This doesn't mean I'm stuck on Java 2, but it means I don't read the papers on Paxos and Dynamo and such (instead I read the Hacker News article on the release of Apache Cassandra and build distributed software on top of relatively-early beta versions - and occasionally the business deals with costs from migrating from Thrift to CQL but the risk was worth it).
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For me getting alerted when there are new papers that cite papers that are relevant towards my current research topic would be ideal. Google scholars has alerts on authors and search queries but for me they don't have enough recall. Its much easier to tell when a paper is relevant for me if it happens to cite 3 of the commonly used datasets for my particular task. btw I use arxiv-sanity, its pretty great, thanks a lo…
Thanks! Email alerts are one of top requested features, it's definitely on my shortlist for the next feature to incorporate. Another feature I'd like to add is an ability to follow people, but I'm worried about the exact implementation since the current assumed contract is that your library is private. One more feature of course I hear about often are comments, but I'm afraid of the site disintegrating into YouTube c…
I help build a product called BrowZine [1]. It's focused on researchers at an institution - academic, private, and medical especially - who want to easily track the latest research papers in their favorite journals.
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