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Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by austinjp » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 8:10 AM UTC

ampvchen wrote: post #22

Analemma_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a neat idea, but I would want identity verification - only upvotes from people well-versed in the field should "count", precisely so it doesn't become Reddit. Which means you would have a chicken-and-egg problem when the service got started and few experts were on it yet.

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.

Also very much something is be interested in, if invites are available, thanks.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by Havoc » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 8:57 AM UTC

Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #24

(1) I manually check the proceedings of the important conferences in my subfield when they come out. (2) I check my field's arXiv every other day or so. (3) Google Scholar alerts me of papers that it thinks will interest me, based on my own papers, and it's very useful. Most of what it shows me is in fact interesting for me, and it sometimes catches papers from obscure venues that I wouldn't see otherwise. The proble…

>The problem is that you need to have papers published for this to work

The one place where one could actually use a "Follow" button for other people...there isn't one. Classic.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by igravious » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 9:26 AM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #92

Somewhat relevant to a post earlier this week, I use RSS to subscribe to various blogs / sites / alerts etc... - the problem is that it is indeed reactive and not 'organic': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196131 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 w…

Regarding your last comment,

> - Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)

Unless I've missed something I'm puzzled why social bookmarking has never taken off or achieved critical mass. Once upon a time there was deli.cio.us (or however they punctuated it!) but when that went through a bunch of churn I think it felt like it got semi-abandoned - I stopped using it _ages_ ago anyway.

What is more incredible to me is that Linked Data is based on URLs so you'd think that social bookmarking would have evolved out of something in that space at some point but to the best of my knowledge it hasn't.

Perhaps it's the organisational, classification, taxonomy/folksonomy[1], tagging conundrum that is holding this space back, I really don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by trurl42 » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 9:51 AM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #17

There 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.

https://scirate.com/

Is something like that for papers on the arXiv.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by return0 » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC

stenl wrote: post #28

I made a simple service for myself ( http://paperfeed.io ) which is a feed of all the new papers in journals I care about. I can "star" papers for reading later. Works extremely well for my habits. You're welcome to try it (not sure if the signup workflow still works; let me know). I'll be happy to hear your feedback. Edit: you can upvote papers, and they'll float to the top just like on HN.

Great! How did you manage the different feeds? I did something similar for my field but its a nightmare since some journals violate the rss, or dump metadata in the feed (my shameless plug is http://sciboards.com)

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by sitkack » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #116

sitkack wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sho…

Great writeup. Too much of these web "platforms" and use the word loosely with air-quotes, don't support the level of compositional delegation that could/would enable what you are looking for w/o having to make your own platform.

The only thing I can suggestion w/o understanding your needs on more than a superficial level would be to create bots that have admin access, that attach "flair" that denotes rank that the bot uses to move stories around, etc. Network effects and availability still make sites such as reddit very attractive.

I have always wanted a multidimensional discussion, so that joke posts and memes automatically diverge from the current hyperplane of the discussion.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by odavinci » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 2:34 PM UTC

I also find that it is a shame to restrain article sources to arxiv. It would be awesome if your tool would allow saving articles from Sci-Hub into one's library. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sci-hub-offline-elsevier-gets-yet-a... I think scientific research should benefit all of humanity.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by kirang1989 » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #30

I know this question is probably a little off topic for this post but I'm very eager to get some kind of answer. What should I be reading? I'm a computer science student, I want to go into a "Software Engineering" line of work. Are there any places to read up on related topics? I have yet to find something that interests my direct field of choice. Is there one on in academia writing about software? I also like NLP an…

You might want to check out the Papers We Love repo at https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love. That's my goto resource.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by merraksh » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 3:25 PM UTC

In my field, most cutting-edge papers show up in the monthly digest from www.optimization-online.org, a pre-print site for optimization papers.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by wodenokoto » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #17

There 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.

I think this is what academia.edu is trying to be. It seems to be a mix of reddit and linkedin for academics.