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Documents like this (like traditional books) on technical subjects need to be read very carefully, requiring a time commitment that is large relative to the len
by Myrmornis 9y ago
Documents like this (like traditional books) on technical subjects need to be read very carefully, requiring a time commitment that is large relative to the length of a human life or career. Also, they have a huge amount of overlap with other similar documents, so critical choices must be made about what to try to read.
It would be nice to have a high-quality and widely-used set of community ratings for such documents. E.g. a place where
- new documents can be added
- they are categorized (automatically should be doable) according to subject matter, level, etc
- some sort of community voting system (perhaps augmented by automated scoring by well-established predictors) scores each document for its utility/recommendability, in each of the subject areas that it covers.
Does anything like that exist for arXiv?
Do people put general expository material on arXiv? (E.g. lecture notes, textbooks, etc).