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wadamczykon Ask HN: What is the modern equivalent of Bell Labs?

What about National Institute of Standards and Technology?

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

Awesome to see other people having the same need as us.

Do you see anything that we could add to the tool to make it more useful for you?

One thing we played around with, which works quite well is directly interfacing it with GPT-realtime. This then allows one to talk to it about the paper. It also solves the problem of the language since any person can talk to it in their own language, which could increase accessibility in science. I have shown it to some Japanese colleagues the other day and they could interact with it in Japanese which was quite amazing.

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

I tried to generate podcasts with notebookLM, but it felt like too much show for my liking. I wanted to make something more factual and dry to make sure that the content is not lost in the cloud. Of course one can personalise it, but these extra few steps that are annoying and were preventing me from using it in the bus on the way to my lab. Also having it more as a community thing would allow us to add features that people are interested in. Thoughts?

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

Thanks. I think it is easy with older papers, since then there already a lot engagement, but it can more tricky with new submissions. How would you deal with new submissions? For myself I am quite often looking through papers in the morning that were published the day before.

I like the idea of the "world in brief" - I will try to add it.

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

Thank you for the contact. I will send him an email.

Do you have any thoughts on @joshny's comment? It is something we don't know exactly what would be the best strategy to deal with it.

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

Oh, that is nice idea! Do you think it would be more interesting for the community to reach out to scirate and integrate the podcasts there, or would it more interesting to try to scrape the scores from the scirate and integrate it to ekoAcademic?

wadamczykon Show HN: ekoAcademic – Convert ArXiv papers to interactive podcasts

What do you think would be a good way to prioritise papers? It seems to be especially difficult when the papers are not yet rated by the users. We were thinking of some algorithm that would analyse the authors of the paper and their previous track record, but it feels somewhat unfair towards the new/young academics?

Super curious about your thoughts.