Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
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Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
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Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#2What are we being shown here?
There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to understand how it works and why. How are papers selected for inclusion? How are summaries checked for accuracy?
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#3What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to understand how it works and why. How are papers selected for inclusion? How are summaries checked for accuracy?
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful.
In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon.
Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#4What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to understand how it works and why. How are papers selected for inclusion? How are summaries checked for accuracy?
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
The summaries are great. What model/process do you use to generate them?
Is it all automated?
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#5What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to understand how it works and why. How are papers selected for inclusion? How are summaries checked for accuracy?
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
This might be an overly pedantic nitpick - and it might just be me - but I found the phrase "the newest science" very confusing at first. It sounded like it was referring to the latest "thing" which has come to be called a science, e.g. "the science of sleep". Perhaps something like "Cutting edge science explained simply" ?
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
This might be an overly pedantic nitpick - and it might just be me - but I found the phrase "the newest science" very confusing at first. It sounded like it was referring to the latest "thing" which has come to be called a science, e.g. "the science of sleep". Perhaps something like "Cutting edge science explained simply" ?
"Cutting edge science explained simply" - I like that. Done!
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
The summaries are great. What model/process do you use to generate them? Is it all automated?
I use OpenAI GPT-4o mini and have automated everything since for this amount of articles it would be overwhelming to do it manually. AND i wanted the translations so imagine every article is present in 6 languages. That has to be automated.
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#8What are we being shown here? There's no "about" page or anything I can find that describes what this website is or does. The domain suggests it's AI-generated summaries of papers, maybe? If so, it would be great to understand how it works and why. How are papers selected for inclusion? How are summaries checked for accuracy?
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
The idea is good, but the real difficulty is that recent publications do not yet represent established knowledge but are rather part of an ongoing scientific discussion. Now without being part of the respective community it is therefore very difficult to correctly judge the publications.
If you look at semantic scholar, they're trying to classify publications as "influential" or "background", based on how often they're cited.
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point, thx! An "About" page answering your questions could be helpful. In short, my goal is to read and understand current science papers without needing deep knowledge of the specific jargon. Papers are chosen based on their Creative Commons license, allowing modifications. Accuracy isn't verified, but a disclaimer notes that these are AI summaries and recommends checking the original source for accuracy.
The idea is good, but the real difficulty is that recent publications do not yet represent established knowledge but are rather part of an ongoing scientific discussion. Now without being part of the respective community it is therefore very difficult to correctly judge the publications. If you look at semantic scholar, they're trying to classify publications as "influential" or "background", based on how often they'…
Hm, i get your point. My take on this is the following:
Every established knowledge started of as cutting edge. Some took way longer to be accepted and respected. Sometimes decades. So I like that cutting edge science and ideas are put out there. Only time will tell what ideas are really good.
Re: Show HN: Simple Science – The Newest Science Explained Simply
#10Interesting idea, but I am hesitant to rely on AI to summarize cutting edge / highly specific research papers correctly for me, especially if I'm not a subject matter expert in that field and I can verify some of the information myself.