Show HN: Feed of current articles for science lovers shortened to bullet points

Running a neural network on paper abstracts can probably get you 80% of the way to removing the need for human submitters — figuring out the remain 20% is an exercise for the reader :)

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Post by flatearther43 » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 12:06 AM UTC

Really like the clean design of the site!

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Post by kemyd » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 12:45 AM UTC

Hi everyone!

I'm Dawid, the Founder and CEO of Bootstrap Shuffle during the day and a reader interested in science at any other time.

According to the study[1], emotional people (I am one of them) overestimate the knowledge they acquire by reading just the titles of articles shared on Facebook.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189

Bullets.tech is a response to it. This is a place where we publish summaries of articles for science enthusiasts. Five bullet points or less. The very essence of the article.

If you ever happened to share or like a science-related article after reading just the title, you will like our website :)

If the title of an article says that "a cure for cancer has been found", our summary will allow you to find out that the article is referring to one of the hundreds of tumor types and not in humans but in mice.

You can browse Bullets.tech:

1/ via the https://bullets.tech website

2/ By signing up to the weekly newsletter on the website

3/ Using the terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli

4/ on Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/

5/ and the RSS feed: https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml

I am willing to collaborate with people with similar interests (science, technology, psychology, cosmos, history, medicine, nature) who would like to take part in developing this project as non-technical co-founders.

PS. I copied my post from Product Hunt because it explain a lot (i think)

Any questions? Maybe suggestions?

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Post by Iv » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:08 AM UTC

kemyd wrote: post #6

Hi everyone! I'm Dawid, the Founder and CEO of Bootstrap Shuffle during the day and a reader interested in science at any other time. According to the study[1], emotional people (I am one of them) overestimate the knowledge they acquire by reading just the titles of articles shared on Facebook. [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189 Bullets.tech is a response to it. This is a place where we pub…

Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, high signal-to-noise summary. Even the abstract is often too verbose or omit some important shortcomings of the article.

In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making:

- a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence) - a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not) - context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery

These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.

Re: Show HN: Feed of current articles for science lovers shortened to bullet points

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Post by kemyd » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:10 AM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #4

Running a neural network on paper abstracts can probably get you 80% of the way to removing the need for human submitters — figuring out the remain 20% is an exercise for the reader :)

This is reasonable if you want to summarize hundreds of articles and more :) We are summarizing only 2-3 a day (we'll grow but not much). I want to create a place where people will read all summaries, even if something is out of their field of specialty.

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Post by dannykwells » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 1:51 AM UTC

Seconded that this is super useful. I think it's great to start with high profile media outlets, but I'd encourage you to look towards more science-level publications as well, esp. Nature and Science.

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Post by kemyd » Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 2:00 AM UTC

dannykwells wrote: post #9

Seconded that this is super useful. I think it's great to start with high profile media outlets, but I'd encourage you to look towards more science-level publications as well, esp. Nature and Science.

Thank you. We will take your advice!