Just what humanity needed: TikTok for scientific papers, with AI! I find myself looking up to the sky wishing for an asteroid to hit Earth on a daily basis, lately...

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jonas21 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea?

There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and interests. Likewise, there's a discoverability problem for authors who are not already well-known. Andrej Karpathy's arXiv Sanity site used to be a decent way of sifting through papers in some areas, but sadly it's been down for a while now.

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		I did the same thing as parent, but from the other end. I liked the start, but then I started going negative as I realized that the medium of 'presenting a lot structured information' and the medium of 'lets make it appealing to a visual person' do not have a lot of overlap. There is some, but there is a valid question of whether "TikTok, but for papers" is not just a bad way to advertise it to people reading papers, people on HN, but ALSO to people who consume TikTok.. it prepares a mediocre experience for all 3 groups. It is an interesting mix though. I am not dismissing it outright. After all, I am driving ford lightning and kinda like ratty..
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