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Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by chrisseaton »

sampo wrote: post #63
Analemma_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a neat idea, but I would want identity verification - only upvotes from people well-versed in the field should "count", precisely so it doesn't become Reddit. Which means you would have a chicken-and-egg problem when the service got started and few experts were on it yet.

Perhaps you could get an ordering based only on the upvotes from your friends, and maybe friends of friends with a lesser weight. Maybe also include upvotes from strangers whose past voting pattern is similar to yours. Maybe one can construct some PageRank-esque structure, whose votes should be weighted heavily and whose not, in the light of your own voting history.

> based only on the upvotes from your friends

That would create an echo chamber. You need to know about research that challenges your assumptions.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by pfd1986 »

karpathy wrote: post #55

I wrote http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/ (code is open source on github: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver ) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It's meant to…

I also use a homemade code to keep up with new papers.

I feed in a .bib file with papers I like and use a Naive Bayes classifier to find papers I might like in news feeds (science, nature, PNAS, etc).

It works pretty well. As a bonus you can use post high ranked papers to slack or use papers sent to me by other people to repopulate the bib file.

Always welcoming suggestions: https://github.com/pfdamasceno/shakespeare

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by paulsutter »

ampvchen wrote: post #22
Analemma_ wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a neat idea, but I would want identity verification - only upvotes from people well-versed in the field should "count", precisely so it doesn't become Reddit. Which means you would have a chicken-and-egg problem when the service got started and few experts were on it yet.

That's actually something we are working on. We are working with verified researchers in the field (industry and academic) to help surface good papers and foster an open discussion.

What about collecting tweets from verified researchers? It could help getting to critical mass. You could even consider papers tweeted by researchers that are followed by your known researchers, and so on, with the right weighting (something resembling pagerank).

With the right weighting this could really boost the size and quality of your dataset.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by jessriedel »

gravypod wrote: post #30

I know this question is probably a little off topic for this post but I'm very eager to get some kind of answer. What should I be reading? I'm a computer science student, I want to go into a "Software Engineering" line of work. Are there any places to read up on related topics? I have yet to find something that interests my direct field of choice. Is there one on in academia writing about software? I also like NLP an…

I'll suggest a minority position: If you feel the need to keep up at the bleeding edge of your field, your work is probably replaceable, i.e., if you didn't do it then someone else would do it a year later.

Instead, read more review papers and seminal papers in your field.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by gravypod »

jessriedel wrote: post #75
gravypod wrote: post #30

I know this question is probably a little off topic for this post but I'm very eager to get some kind of answer. What should I be reading? I'm a computer science student, I want to go into a "Software Engineering" line of work. Are there any places to read up on related topics? I have yet to find something that interests my direct field of choice. Is there one on in academia writing about software? I also like NLP an…

I'll suggest a minority position: If you feel the need to keep up at the bleeding edge of your field, your work is probably replaceable, i.e., if you didn't do it then someone else would do it a year later. Instead, read more review papers and seminal papers in your field.

Ok but where do I find those for my field? I'd just like engaging material to read that will provide others insights into how I can do my job better then I currently can.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by visarga »

karpathy wrote: post #55

I wrote http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/ (code is open source on github: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver ) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It's meant to…

Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day.

A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially leads to other complications (like moderation), but I really think readers would benefit from reviews, questions and answers.

The current ML related discussion sites (blogs, /r/machinelearning, G+, Twitter, StackExchange and YC) are often mixed with lots of noise. I'd like to read what researchers think.

Another suggestion: add links to code repositories, where they are available. Maybe some of your trusted users could be empowered with the right to add such links, if it's too much work for a single person. If interesting discussions are reported on other pages on the internet, they could also be added to the article, to make them easier to find.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by visarga »

karpathy wrote: post #67
dspoka wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me getting alerted when there are new papers that cite papers that are relevant towards my current research topic would be ideal. Google scholars has alerts on authors and search queries but for me they don't have enough recall. Its much easier to tell when a paper is relevant for me if it happens to cite 3 of the commonly used datasets for my particular task. btw I use arxiv-sanity, its pretty great, thanks a lo…

Thanks! Email alerts are one of top requested features, it's definitely on my shortlist for the next feature to incorporate. Another feature I'd like to add is an ability to follow people, but I'm worried about the exact implementation since the current assumed contract is that your library is private. One more feature of course I hear about often are comments, but I'm afraid of the site disintegrating into YouTube c…

Draft help from your readers. There have to be a few who want to contribute.

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by the_duke »

karpathy wrote: post #55

I wrote http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/ (code is open source on github: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver ) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It's meant to…

Wouldn't you miss a lot of important publications when just checking arxiv?

Re: Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

copperx wrote: post #33
Al-Khwarizmi wrote: post #24

(1) I manually check the proceedings of the important conferences in my subfield when they come out. (2) I check my field's arXiv every other day or so. (3) Google Scholar alerts me of papers that it thinks will interest me, based on my own papers, and it's very useful. Most of what it shows me is in fact interesting for me, and it sometimes catches papers from obscure venues that I wouldn't see otherwise. The proble…

What does arXiv provide that your conference proceedings / association doesn't? For example, I usually log in to the ACM site and go to my SIGs and see what's new there. I've never thought about visiting arXiv.

At least for theoretical CS and cryptography, Crypto ePrint and arXiv often have more detailed full versions of the paper. These are often invaluable for understanding proofs and other important details.
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