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Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

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Re: Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

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Post by lordswork »

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions.

Does a good alternative to this exist?

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Post by ronsor »

lordswork wrote: post #2

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions. Does a good alternative to this exist?

I wish someone would scrape and mirror Twitter-X (fully, not just proxy like Nitter).

I know Musk would be upset though.

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Post by 3abiton »

lordswork wrote: post #2

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions. Does a good alternative to this exist?

I struggle to keep up with the current trends in AI, do you have any twitter community recommendations to follow?

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Post by carlossouza »

lordswork wrote: post #2

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions. Does a good alternative to this exist?

The growing pace of new papers, especially in CS, is a hard problem to solve.

We created this tool to help:

https://trendingpapers.com/

The website was launched in October. It is already used by researchers in most of the leading universities and tech companies and is growing fast. Let me know what you think.. cheers!

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Post by obblekk »

carlossouza wrote: post #6
lordswork wrote: post #2

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions. Does a good alternative to this exist?

The growing pace of new papers, especially in CS, is a hard problem to solve. We created this tool to help: https://trendingpapers.com/ The website was launched in October. It is already used by researchers in most of the leading universities and tech companies and is growing fast. Let me know what you think.. cheers!

This is super cool. I've often wondered why google scholar didn't use pagerank over the citations... and now you've done it! Props!

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Post by paulpauper »

"Computer Science > Digital Libraries"

how does this even merit inclusion on arxiv? Does it even count as science? We're talking meta-computer-science. Meanwhile, It's hard enough for me to get the endorsement to publish my actual math paper on there, which has afik new results. The computer science section of arxiv feels like a giant citation ring of mediocre, math-light papers.

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Post by ansk »

So glad the AK account exists. As a researcher, I've always wanted some guy with an econ degree and a year of ML eng to recommend me papers after glancing at them for maybe 30 seconds.

I am genuinely baffled that researchers in the field think there is any value in the service AK provides. I'd wager I could create an equally effective bot with the following process:

    1) Create a historical dataset of publications and their citation counts

    2) For each publication extract the following features:

        - H-index of first author

        - Maximum H-index of all authors

        - Number of author affiliations in {top-10 school, deepmind, meta, openai, nvidia}

        - Number of times the phrase "state-of-the-art" appears

        - Which latex template is used (NeurIPS, ICML, etc.)

        - Number of images in the paper

        - Whether there is an image on the first page

        - Whether "all you need" appears in the title

        - Whether the publication has a linked project page

    3) Train a shallow decision tree with citation counts as the regression target

Re: Tweets to Citations: The Impact of Social Media Influencers on AI Research

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Post by Imnimo »

ansk wrote: post #9

So glad the AK account exists. As a researcher, I've always wanted some guy with an econ degree and a year of ML eng to recommend me papers after glancing at them for maybe 30 seconds. I am genuinely baffled that researchers in the field think there is any value in the service AK provides. I'd wager I could create an equally effective bot with the following process: 1) Create a historical dataset of publications and…

"Do I recognize the latex template" is my number one filter when clicking through the new arxiv papers each day, so I definitely buy that that would work.
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