This doesn't necessarily fall under the "newest" category but I wrote a twitter bot (https://twitter.com/loveapaper) that tweets random papers from the Papers We Love (http://paperswelove.org/) repository as a simple way to find new (to me) papers that might be interesting. Do check out PWL though, it's a great community with chapters from all around the world that meet up to discuss and learn more about academic computer science papers.
Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#112I use google scholar alerts for people whose research I want to follow. You will get a jive email when ever people you follow publish something with links.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#113For crypto papers, I wrote a twitter bot to track all updates on the IACR ePrint archive: https://twitter.com/IACRePrint
I basically just check my twitter account daily (also follow many great researchers who have twitter accounts :))
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#114I 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…
Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day. A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially lea…
If you want links to code repositories for each of the papers, there is already a project http://www.gitxiv.com/. It also has a comments section. Maybe both the maintainers can work together to get both the projects integrated. I actually subscribe to GitXiv mailing lists as well since they send list of top articles under particular categories.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#115Write one influential paper. Then all the later papers in the same sub-subfield probably cite your paper. Go to Google Scholar and check the latest citations to your paper. Ok, it doesn't need to be your paper. Just find a paper that was so influential that others working on the same problem probably will cite it, and monitor the new citations.
So, that's close to how I operate (basically bibliography-surfing), though with one handicap: what do you use to track citations?
Particularly something that's generally open.
Best tool I've got ready access to is Google Scholar. There are citations indices I can get access to, by going on-site to a specific facility, but that's pretty limiting when the rest of my work can be done (and the bulk of my materials) are in my office.
(And yes, I'm aware that having to go to where the indices are is how it Used to Be Done, and in fact, I Did That. Technology has moved on.)
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#116There should be something like reddit for academic papers. With upvotes and what not. But I guess it takes people longer to read a paper than to read reddit content.
pretty sure this is reddit, just make a subreddit for the topic and then start feeding it.
It's not.
Reddit doesn't allow subreddits to limit who can moderate posts or comments except by taking the subreddit private and limiting the membership.
It's actually a bit of a major pain, particularly for smaller public subreddits.
Reddit's moderation system in general is just hugely problematic. It kind of works, but it really doesn't, and has received very little love.
The first question for any such system should be "what is your goal?". Reddit serves popularity relatively well. Accuracy, relevance, information: rather less so.
Some non-brief thoughts on that from a few years back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28jfk4/content...
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#117Surprising that feed.ly hasn't been mentioned. It's like gmail for feeds, and it has all the arxiv categories prepopulated. My workflow is as follows: (i) check feedly every day, see ~20-30 new articles, (ii) skim all the abstracts in 5-10 minutes, (iii) mark 0-2 to read later in the day, (iv) mark rest as read, and repeat.
E.g., it's an RSS / Atom reader.
Yes, this is precisely the sort of application RSS is excellent for.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#118I 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…
Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day. A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially lea…
What about a Gitter-equivalent for each paper with logs. That's one way I envision paper's and conversational threads get related. Each paper would be a different channel. Maybe there are topic channels too.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#119Tossing out a contrarian view: I'm finding there's a tremendous amount of good information and publishing that's old. Keeping up with the cutting-edge can be interesting, but you have to do a lot of the filtering yourself.
Finding out how to identify the relevant older work in your field, finding it, reading it, and seeing for yourself how it's aged, been correctly -- or quite often incorrectly -- presented and interpreted, and what stray gems are hidden within it can be highly interesting.
I've been focusing on economics as well as several other related fields. Classic story is that Pareto optimisation lay buried for most of three decades before being rediscovered in the 1920 (I think I've got dates and timespans roughly right). The irony of economics itself having an inefficient and lossy information propogation system, and a notoriously poor grip on its own history, is not minor.
The Internet Archive, Sci-Hub, and various archives across the Web (some quite highly ideological in their foundation, though the content included is often quite good) are among my most utilised tools.
Libraries as well -- ILL can deliver virtually anything to you in a few days, weeks at the outside. It's quite possible to scan 500+ page books in an hour for transfer to a tablet -- either I'm getting stronger or technology's improving, as I can carry 1,500 books with one hand.
Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?
#120Just FYI, you should know about SHARE. It's an effort to create a free, open dataset of research activity across the research lifecycle. You can read more at http://share-research.org So, if you want to see a reddit for research, better news feeds, etc., it is the SHARE dataset that can provide that data. SHARE won't build all those things--we want to facilitate others in doing so. You can contribute at https://githu…
Hi. This looks really interesting. Unfortunately the results page after a search freezes the stock browser on my LG G3.
I've also read the front page, the about page, and your post several times, and I'm not exactly clear what you provide. I thought I'd do some searches to see the product made sense. A search for a field in interested in, arthritis, yielded zero results. Okay, so... no medical research? A search for "reddit" yielded results, and mentions of "providers". I'm not clear what providers are... is reddit a provider, or the research papers, or the publishers, or the researchers...?
I'll read more later when I'm not on mobile, maybe it will be clearer.
I'm starting a project related to analysing published research, so this is a field I'm very interested in. I hope SHARE can help in some way, and I'll definitely be keeping tabs on your work. Thanks for posting.