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Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by pm90 » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer.

One thing I liked about grad school is that there would literally be classes where students were assigned to read a foundational paper in the field and then discuss/write about it, so my personal go to has been to try and find “Intro to X” grad level courses and see their paper assignments (most professors tend to put most course material online).

It’s not something guaranteed to give you results but often I will stumble into interesting stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise.

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by pramodbiligiri » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

You can choose the topic you’re interested in and either go for “test of time” awarded papers in the field, or pick up a list from a graduate course in any University. That way the professor would have done the curation for you.

Just throwing out a link to one such paper based course (Datacenter Networkjng) from UC San Diego - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by beakerbreaker » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

You didn't mention what field(s) but Arxiv Sanity Preserver has top papers users have added to their libraries.

http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by pramodbiligiri » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 2:37 PM UTC

heldsteel7 wrote: post #18

Great idea! How do you choose papers? Is it all free?? Would be good if you could further narrow down from the topic to subtopics. A small glitch, when I deselect 'Select All' it doesn't clear topics.

Papers are obtained from Arxiv.org on a regular basis. Their license for metadata allows one to build these kind of things (I am not a lawyer).

Thanks for the bug report. Have to double check once I get to my laptop, but that’s probably intended behaviour. Select All is a short for... Selecting all the topics. Once you uncheck it, you can select and deselect individual topics at will. Let’s say I clear all the topics as you suggested, what should be displayed in the list of papers then? Anyway, wouldn’t defend that dropdown too much, at this point!

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by vpj » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:19 PM UTC

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

https://papers.labml.ai/

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by imranq » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:27 PM UTC

This is a really interesting idea! Audio definitely makes it easier to listen to papers on the go.

One thing that's missing in the paper curation space is understanding the knowledge state of the user. Once we have that we should be able to build generative models that synthesize text that can get people to read papers much faster.

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by dagw » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

2 minutes papers on YouTube is pretty good for physics simulation and AI papers. Plus you get a dude giving a quick explanation why the paper is relevant and important so you don't have to go in completely blind.

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by Shindi » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:35 PM UTC

I am not a PhD but I like to read cognitive science and astro papers. I was wondering if there is an annotated version of papers available? Like a rapgenius for academic papers.

Anyone know if this exists?

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by mpercy » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

This is really neat. One piece of feedback is it begins and ends TeX expressions by saying “dollar” which is distracting. Probably best to strip the TeX syntax while retaining the expressions. Simple ones like O(1) should be understandable aurally, even if complex expressions may not be.

Re: Show HN: Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast

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Post by RandomThrow321 » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:38 PM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #21

RandomThrow321 wrote: post #17

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. One thing I liked about grad school is that there would literally be classes where students were assigned to read a foundational paper in the field and then discuss/write about it, so my personal go to has been to try and find “Intro to X” grad level courses and see their paper assignments (most professors tend to put most course material online). It…

> This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer.

I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion!

While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC:

https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList

I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.