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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 abidlabs »

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…

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

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

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Post by paulpauper »

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #18
paulpauper wrote: post #8

"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.

Computer science is not mathematics. There's plenty of empirical work to be done in CS, including HCI.

I may as well publish under a CS category if that is what it takes.

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

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

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!

Very cool! Would it be possible to order category filters alphabetically?

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

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Post by dopylitty »

paulpauper wrote: post #8

"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.

It’s basically academia washing for the new tech bubble.

They saw how closely and uncritically people followed papers about COVID and realized if they released “papers” about whatever llm product they were working on it would lend some kind of credibility that they never got with cryptocurrency or Web 3.0 or the metaverse.

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

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Post by jerpint »

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?

Huggingface is slowly trying to get their own user base to adopt paper conversations

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

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Post by ansk »

abidlabs wrote: post #21
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…

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

Do you by chance have a vested interest in attesting this? A disclaimer might be appropriate if so.

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

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Post by hall0ween »

abidlabs wrote: post #21
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…

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

What is the AK account? This sounds useful for keeping up on research in this field.

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

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Post by actualwitch »

dopylitty wrote: post #24
paulpauper wrote: post #8

"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.

It’s basically academia washing for the new tech bubble. They saw how closely and uncritically people followed papers about COVID and realized if they released “papers” about whatever llm product they were working on it would lend some kind of credibility that they never got with cryptocurrency or Web 3.0 or the metaverse.

Crypto tried the academia angle, every shitcoin had a whitepaper similar to llm ones.

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

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Post by causalmodels »

hall0ween wrote: post #27
abidlabs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

What is the AK account? This sounds useful for keeping up on research in this field.

https://x.com/_akhaliq

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

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Post by refulgentis »

ansk wrote: post #26
abidlabs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are have been many, many services that have tried to automate paper selection based on these heuristics. None of them have had the staying power of AK's account. As someone with a PhD in machine learning from Stanford, I can attest AK's taste is quite good.

Do you by chance have a vested interest in attesting this? A disclaimer might be appropriate if so.

You should be ashamed of yourself and apologize. What's more likely? There's paid shills lying that he provides non-negative value, or you're missing something when asserting for every ML PhD on earth, they must think his extremely popular work has negative value?
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