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Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by jhartikainen »

In some ways I like the concept. Making interesting papers easier to find and easier to digest seems like a good thing.

But the popularity metrics and AI aspects seem like they will cause a bias towards certain types of papers, making potentially useful ones not get found.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by jonas21 »

Plywood1 wrote: post #12

Just what humanity needed: TikTok for scientific papers, with AI! I find myself looking up to the sky wishing for an asteroid to hit Earth on a daily basis, lately...

Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea?

There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and interests. Likewise, there's a discoverability problem for authors who are not already well-known. Andrej Karpathy's arXiv Sanity site used to be a decent way of sifting through papers in some areas, but sadly it's been down for a while now.

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by [deleted] »

jonas21 wrote: post #14
Plywood1 wrote: post #12

Just what humanity needed: TikTok for scientific papers, with AI! I find myself looking up to the sky wishing for an asteroid to hit Earth on a daily basis, lately...

Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea? There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and interests. Likewise, there's a discoverability problem for authors who are not already well-known. Andrej Karpathy's arXiv Sanity site used to be a decent way of sifting through papers…

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Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by freehorse »

boutell wrote: post #10
giwook wrote: post #5

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This is a bit like discovering punk rock for the first time and rolling your eyes and saying "yeah, we really need more rock"

No, it is more like "tiktok for punk rock discovery: find the most authentic punk rock in our new app".

Re: Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers

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Post by kamranjon »

Just wanted to maybe make a light suggestions that, for marketing purposes, this really doesn't need any suggestion of TikTok and also might benefit from less heavy handed mentions of AI. I think it provides a real value proposition on its own without needing to rely on those two things to sell itself. They are pretty polarized terms at this point and I can sort of understand the initial revulsion from hearing TikTok next to scientific papers.
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