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Re: LLM research on Hacker News is drying up

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Post by gcr »

simonw wrote: post #3

Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally. Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline. Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?

/R/MachineLearning is not bad

But the gold standard is a small signal or discord community of like-minded, fairly tight knit friends. You may have to organize this yourself

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Post by gavinray »

simonw wrote: post #3

Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally. Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline. Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?

Unironically, very niche subreddits.

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Post by dormento »

latexr wrote: post #6

> So I asked Claude (…) > I asked Claude (…) > So I asked him (…) > (…) so I asked Claude (…) > (…) so I asked Claude (…) > Thanks, Claude. There doesn’t seem to be one bit of original research in the post, and no explanation of the data or conclusions. For example, what exactly does it mean that the papers “held up”, and how exactly did Claude reach that conclusion? If you don’t know, we can’t trust the data. If you…

And it has a citation block at the bottom! Like anyone would want to cite this in a serious context.

This must be a troll.

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Post by fc417fc802 »

gessha wrote: post #10
simonw wrote: post #3

Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally. Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline. Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?

There are/were isolated communities on Discord around fast.ai, MLC, MLOps that talk papers more in depth but it’s hard to organize a community without commercial or academic incentive.

The difficulty is perhaps unsurprising given the time sink that is reading a given paper to any reasonably complete degree of understanding.

Re: LLM research on Hacker News is drying up

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Post by simonw »

simonw wrote: post #3

Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally. Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline. Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?

... and this thread over here seems to be proving me wrong already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779
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