Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development?
I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.
https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent
or rather my transformer-powered RSS reader looks at it. This is very technical and quite raw and my own interest is not so much the cutting edge stuff but rather the people who are working on run-of-the-mill problems like my RSS reader.
It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good)
It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.
1) what does research for running a newsletter look like? Many seem to curate a collection of content from other similar newsletters. Others seems to annotate and summarize. Is this ok?
2) How do you get audience .... any strategies that work? Or is it just have fun doing what you love and hope that audience show up
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There's a heavy focus on the intersection of AI and law ... but that's definitely an interesting space right now (and for the foreseeable future).
Those topics seem too broad (and shallow?) for anyone to curate the firehouse effectively. There’s too much noise unless one is more selective.
Of course you can limit yourself to say half hour a day, but there is also an emotional cost of seeing people working on similar ideas which can be quite deflating.
So… I’ve not gone on Twitter for several months now and instead just use newsletters, HN, R/ML and R/LocalLlama to keep updated. My heuristic is that if something is significant it will bubble up on one of these.
Besides the newsletters already mentioned here, for research trends I like the labml trending papers list and newsletter —
https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly
This is incidentally informed by Twitter trends so is a good proxy that helps me stay out of Twitter.