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This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of
by pcrh 6y ago
This kind of effort serves the function of helping people to _approximately_ "know what is known", but it's really not very useful to the more important part of research efforts, which is to know what is not known.
- s4n1ty 6y agoIt could potentially be used with a novelty search algorithm, finding papers that are plausible but sufficiently dissimilar to anything in the training set.
- thereisnospork 6y agoA large part of research is spent on the understanding of what is known; parsing papers is part and parcel for professors, grad students, and corporate R+D alike. No idea if their approach is useful, but they are tackling a worthwhile problem.
- visarga 6y ago> No idea if their approach is useful, but they are tackling a worthwhile problem. When there are 1000+ papers every week in your field you need some advanced tools. It's hard to read everything, it's O(N).