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Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by osteele »

katella wrote: post #7

Idk where this changing the url thing started but I really like it.

It works well with bookmarklets. This swizzles between arxiv.org www.talk2arxiv.org. I've now added it to my Favorites bar, next to arxiv.org/abs arxiv.org/pdf and twitter.org nitter.net. Thanks for the service!

javascript:((u,a,b,c)=%3Ewindow.location.href=u.match(a)?u.replace(a,b):u.startsWith(b)?u.replace(b,c):u)(window.location.href,/https:\/\/arxiv\.org\/(abs|pdf)\//,'https://www.talk2arxiv.org/pdf/','https://arxiv.org/pdf/')

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by Mandelmus »

evanhu_ wrote: post #19
pushfoo wrote: post #16

You might be able to drop the PDF backend since they're close to getting HTML running well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38713215 Using that might be easier than a multi-modal approach. Bonus points for: * Multiple papers at once * Comparing PDF and HTML output with the LLM as input for it correcting similar converter code

Definitely I'll move to the LaTeX source code instead of a PDF backend since that allows better support for non textual data that gets poorly scraped by GROBID. That is a really cool development I didn't know about, also theres https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/ which already has most arXiv papers as HTML documents. I chose GROBID because they not only parse the PDF but organize the text into logical sections for me (Intr…

Yes, using the LaTeX source code (or HTML, once that becomes reliable and widely used) should be much more robust than PDF parsing.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by skeptrune »

evanhu_ wrote: post #19
pushfoo wrote: post #16

You might be able to drop the PDF backend since they're close to getting HTML running well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38713215 Using that might be easier than a multi-modal approach. Bonus points for: * Multiple papers at once * Comparing PDF and HTML output with the LLM as input for it correcting similar converter code

Definitely I'll move to the LaTeX source code instead of a PDF backend since that allows better support for non textual data that gets poorly scraped by GROBID. That is a really cool development I didn't know about, also theres https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/ which already has most arXiv papers as HTML documents. I chose GROBID because they not only parse the PDF but organize the text into logical sections for me (Intr…

That is a very good resource to save

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by evanhu_ »

arbitrandomuser wrote: post #20
skeptrune wrote: post #2

This is the first time I have seen someone use GROBID. It seems like an incredibly cool solution

I wonder if they knew that they could get html versions of the paper by just changing the link from ...arxiv.. to ar5iv..

I did try that at first, it was hard to parse through the HTML code and organize into logical sections (authors, references, abstract) and then clean up the text to prepare it optimally for chunking and embedding. Once I found GROBID I just went with that route because it handled all that for me.

Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by [deleted] »

Aachen wrote: post #15

I thought this would be for contacting authors or chatting about the paper with other readers, but apparently RAG here is a new important TLA to take note of, meaning chat bot. You need to enter an API key from "Open"AI to use the service and it's about it answering your questions about the paper

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Re: Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL

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Post by magicalhippo »

While it certainly seems cool, as with most other AI tools I'm struggling to see how I'd use it. That is, I can't think of anything I'd want to ask.

I assume I'm just getting old and have a limited imagination when it comes to these new AI things.

Anyone got any good examples on how to effectively use this?

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