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Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by limit499karma »

chipdart wrote: post #9
Y_Y wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you've put a fake email address on your papers? As in, one that you can't receive from? Why?

> So you've put a fake email address on your papers? I think you're failing to understand the basics of the problem, and even the whole problem domain. Email addresses are not created/maintained for life. You can have an email address, them have your org change name and email provider switch, and not to mention that researchers leave research institutions and thus lose access to their accounts. You have multiple scen…

Conflating email addresses with identity in the digital age is a global techical debt.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by rehaanahmad »

john-titor wrote: post #142

Tried to sign up with my corporate email (life sciences, 100k+ employees worldwide with a big research arm). Says the institution is not known to the service. What's the process to get it known?

Email me at contact@alphaxiv.org, I'll add it asap!

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by parpfish »

Just had an idea that may help the moderation AND encourage higher levels of discourse — comments are not published immediately.

When I was doing peer reviews, it would often take a day or more to read a paper, think it through, and then write up something thoughtful and constructive.

If you introduce a mechanism to delay comments (eg, holding all messages for 24-72 hours before publishing or only releasing new comments on Monday mornings) it would:

- encourage commenters to write longer thoughtful responses rather than short quick comment threads

- reduce back and forth flame wars

- ease the burden on moderators and give them time to do batches of work

- see if multiple commenters come to the same conclusions/critiques to minimize bandwagon effects

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

abhayhegde wrote: post #89
rsp1984 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I launched gotit.pub [1] last year. It's very much the same thing. [1] https://gotit.pub

Wow, how is this not getting enough attention when it is almost the same thing?!

Because so are PubPeer and SciRate which exist for much longer. (And neither those are getting much attention either.)

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by DoctorOetker »

rehaanahmad wrote: post #128
amadeuspagel wrote: post #47

Great idea. - The frontpage should directly show the list of papers, like with HN. You shouldn't have to click on "trending" first. (When you are logged in, you see a list of featured papers on the homepage, which isn't as engaging as the "trending" page. Again, compare HN: Same homepage whether you're logged in or not.) - Ranking shouldn't be based on comment activity, which ranks controversial papers, rather papers…

Great idea, we'll look into making the home page the trending page soon. Regarding HTMl, our original site actually only supported HTML (because it was easier to build an annotator for an HTML page). the issue is that a good ~25% of these papers don't render properly which pisses off a lot of academics. Academics spend a lot of time making their papers look nice for PDF, so when someone comes along and refactors thei…

I apologize for changing topic here:

Did you bulk download the arxiv metadata, PDF and or LaTeX files?

I am trying to figure out what the required space is for just the most recent version of the PDF's.

I can find mentions of the total size in their S3 bucket but unclear if that also includes older versions of the PDF's.

I also wonder if the Kaggle dataset is kept up to date since it states merely 1.7M articles instead of 2.4 I read elsewhere.

Edit: I just found the answers to my question here: https://info.arxiv.org/help/bulk_data_s3.html

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

scarlehoff wrote: post #29

I believe this site is missing a very important thing, direct links to the different categories with a list of papers. This is at least how I (and I believe many others) browse arXiv. I open it up in the morning, scroll through a few categories and open a few papers that look interesting to me. I could see myself using alphaxiv for that, and then, if there's a comment section, I might even read it, and, who knows, le…

Kinda related, Hypothesis (and Diigo iirc in past) has an extension/bookmarklet that can provide an annotation/comment overlay on any web page/pdf. Guess what is needed for arXiv discussion is this overlay but smarter, that is knows a paper pdf and web view are the same, and abstract page is connected to them.

Re: alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv

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Post by john-titor »

rehaanahmad wrote: post #143
john-titor wrote: post #142

Tried to sign up with my corporate email (life sciences, 100k+ employees worldwide with a big research arm). Says the institution is not known to the service. What's the process to get it known?

Email me at contact@alphaxiv.org, I'll add it asap!

Thanks a lot, will do!
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