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This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of research efforts, which is to know what is not known.
This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of research efforts, which is to know what is not known.
No idea if their approach is useful, but they are tackling a worthwhile problem.
While there are lots of TLDR websites out there, I want to know how this one is different from them. I get it; many scientific papers are to some extent bs, and many are just wrong. For PhDs, it's a hassle to go through all of that bs to find something that is actually true. I feel like PhDs basically have to spend hundreds of hours reading papers that don't really benefit them. Tools like this could probably help wi…
I played around with this on the demo page and found that while the generated "TLDR" are pretty good, they tend to generate sentences composed of fragments of existing sentences. Basically, it seems vaguely extractive in nature. Never did I see it summarize a concept in new words, or try to dumb down a complicated concept further than the original paper did. Given the results of GPT3 I would think that it should be p…
This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of research efforts, which is to know what is not known.
A large part of research is spent on the understanding of what is known; parsing papers is part and parcel for professors, grad students, and corporate R+D alike. No idea if their approach is useful, but they are tackling a worthwhile problem.
When there are 1000+ papers every week in your field you need some advanced tools. It's hard to read everything, it's O(N).
Oh! I listened to Scott Hanselman interview one of the authors of this paper on his podcast the other day. It might interest some of you as she explains it all in a very accessible way: https://www.hanselminutes.com/763/tldr-extreme-summarization...
While there are lots of TLDR websites out there, I want to know how this one is different from them. I get it; many scientific papers are to some extent bs, and many are just wrong. For PhDs, it's a hassle to go through all of that bs to find something that is actually true. I feel like PhDs basically have to spend hundreds of hours reading papers that don't really benefit them. Tools like this could probably help wi…
That's what abstract are for