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Comment by lordswork | Hacker News Reader

As much as I dislike all the baggage that comes with Elon owning Twitter, it is the only place I know with a critical mass of AI talent sharing papers and thoughts. Even in read-only mode, it's incredibly useful as a way to stay up to date with interesting AI papers and discussions.

Does a good alternative to this exist?

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The growing pace of new papers, especially in CS, is a hard problem to solve.

We created this tool to help:

https://trendingpapers.com/

The website was launched in October. It is already used by researchers in most of the leading universities and tech companies and is growing fast. Let me know what you think.. cheers!

Love the site, but the one thing I am missing is instantly seeing what papers are trending right now, instead of having to manually select a timeframe. Think hacker news frontpage. Would be interesting to add a "hot" filter, or similar. Average weighting by exponential decay over time? Not sure how you usually do that with pagerank.

Thanks! Yes, that's in the roadmap; I believe it will be complete in 3-4 cycles. Right now, we are finishing the topics module. It will provide us with more granular filtering tools, and enable us to also discover trending topics, etc. It will be eye-opening... but it's taking longer than expected because of the dataset size.

Nice. Is this open source and/or are you looking for help in any way?

Thanks! That's something we are considering, given how many people mentioned it and offered help. Right now, the help we need is writing a paper detailing all aspects of the system and comparing it with similar systems. We have a group in Slack: if you want to contribute, that would be great!

Very cool! Would it be possible to order category filters alphabetically?

Yes, totally! That's a great input, thanks!

This is super cool. I've often wondered why google scholar didn't use pagerank over the citations... and now you've done it! Props!

have you got a public API? id love to add this data to a free app i put together.

Not yet... great idea, thanks! We’ll add to the roadmap

It's why big tech killed rss, they want to own our peer to peer channels.

I use https://huggingface.co/papers and frankly more than enough, usually anything significant enough has a paper there or is mentioned in the papers unless it's completely proprietary stuff (Midjourney, NovelAI etc) so they're not very interesting from a research point of view.

Back in the day, Google Reader was great for this. It's still hard to fathom that nothing ever replaced it.

I struggle to keep up with the current trends in AI, do you have any twitter community recommendations to follow?

Yeah, various AI Discords, like the Nous Research server.

Any recommended accounts to follow; is there a "@Rainmaker1973" for AI papers?

Huggingface is slowly trying to get their own user base to adopt paper conversations

In certain topics, Discords and Github repos.

...Yes, basically siloed off and unsearchable.

Discord is where our conversations go to die, yes; but (non-private) Github repos are clonable and very searchable - so I'm not sure why you wrote that.

Searchable, yes - but you must be signed in.

> Sign in to search code on GitHub - Before you can access our code search functionality please sign in or create a free account.

It's nice when people use gitlab, for this reason

I wish someone would scrape and mirror Twitter-X (fully, not just proxy like Nitter).

I know Musk would be upset though.

There is a weekly paper reading group around the Latent Space podcast folks

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