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Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development?

49 points by asasidh 3y ago

I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.

PaulHoule 3y ago
Personally I look at https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent or rather my transformer-powered RSS reader looks at it. This is very technical and quite raw and my own interest is not so much the cutting edge stuff but rather the people who are working on run-of-the-mill problems like my RSS reader.
- iib 3y ago
  What RSS reader do you use that is transformer powered? Or is it custom made?
  - PaulHoule 3y ago
    Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon. It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good) It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.
combray 3y ago
The monday roundups from Turing post are great. https://www.turingpost.com/ https://www.turingpost.com/
ssivark 3y ago
> applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology. Those topics seem too broad (and shallow?) for anyone to curate the firehouse effectively. There’s too much noise unless one is more selective.
- Zetobal 3y ago
  It's the LinkedIn topics.
ntech 3y ago
If you're looking for applications of AI, I find The Edge newsletter succinct and informative. https://www.theedge.so/ https://www.theedge.so/
purplend 3y ago
I might be biased, but I like superpowerdaily.com (I'm the creator) I spend 4-6 hours every night doing the research and putting it together.
- santa_boy 3y ago
  Subscribed ... always wanted to know from a creator if its ok .... 1) what does research for running a newsletter look like? Many seem to curate a collection of content from other similar newsletters. Others seems to annotate and summarize. Is this ok? 2) How do you get audience .... any strategies that work? Or is it just have fun doing what you love and hope that audience show up
saharhash 3y ago
http://aitidbits.ai http://aitidbits.ai for a roundup of the recent AI papers, tools, and open-source libraries
akulbe 3y ago
I've been very impressed with "The AI Exchange", and their content.
deobald 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Luis Villa's "Open(ish) Machine Learning News": https://www.openml.fyi/ https://www.openml.fyi/ There's a heavy focus on the intersection of AI and law ... but that's definitely an interesting space right now (and for the foreseeable future).
rg111 3y ago
Honestly, nothing can beat being active on Twitter/X.
- d4rkp4ttern 3y ago
  There is a huge cost to being on X/Twitter - you are transfixed by all the awesome-sounding mostly self-promotional posts and keep going into rabbit holes so you don’t have any time left to build your own things or pursue your own ideas. Of course you can limit yourself to say half hour a day, but there is also an emotional cost of seeing people working on similar ideas which can be quite deflating. So… I’ve not gone on Twitter for several months now and instead just use newsletters, HN, R/ML and R/LocalLlama to keep updated. My heuristic is that if something is significant it will bubble up on one of these. Besides the newsletters already mentioned here, for research trends I like the labml trending papers list and newsletter — https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly This is incidentally informed by Twitter trends so is a good proxy that helps me stay out of Twitter.
akumetsu 3y ago
Been a fan of The Batch by Andrew Ng for years
non- 3y ago
I hired a team of writers and researchers to help me create a daily summary of AI news at boteatbrain.com, we're not everyone's cup of tea, but if you just want to keep your wetted finger in the wind, then check us out.
Zetaphor 3y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ahead Of AI https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/ https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/
cainxinth 3y ago
https://thehorizon.ai/ https://thehorizon.ai/
vccafe 3y ago
I send a weekly LinkedIn newsletter with the most notable generative AI developments Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6954740769651871744 https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?en...
riyasingh13 3y ago
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49 points by asasidh 3y ago

I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.

PaulHoule 3y ago

Personally I look at https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent or rather my transformer-powered RSS reader looks at it. This is very technical and quite raw and my own interest is not so much the cutting edge stuff but rather the people who are working on run-of-the-mill problems like my RSS reader.

iib 3y ago
What RSS reader do you use that is transformer powered? Or is it custom made?
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon. It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good) It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.

combray 3y ago

The monday roundups from Turing post are great. https://www.turingpost.com/ https://www.turingpost.com/

ssivark 3y ago

> applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology. Those topics seem too broad (and shallow?) for anyone to curate the firehouse effectively. There’s too much noise unless one is more selective.

Zetobal 3y ago
It's the LinkedIn topics.

ntech 3y ago

If you're looking for applications of AI, I find The Edge newsletter succinct and informative. https://www.theedge.so/ https://www.theedge.so/

purplend 3y ago

I might be biased, but I like superpowerdaily.com (I'm the creator) I spend 4-6 hours every night doing the research and putting it together.

santa_boy 3y ago
Subscribed ... always wanted to know from a creator if its ok .... 1) what does research for running a newsletter look like? Many seem to curate a collection of content from other similar newsletters. Others seems to annotate and summarize. Is this ok? 2) How do you get audience .... any strategies that work? Or is it just have fun doing what you love and hope that audience show up

saharhash 3y ago

http://aitidbits.ai http://aitidbits.ai for a roundup of the recent AI papers, tools, and open-source libraries

akulbe 3y ago

I've been very impressed with "The AI Exchange", and their content.

deobald 3y ago

I'm a huge fan of Luis Villa's "Open(ish) Machine Learning News": https://www.openml.fyi/ https://www.openml.fyi/ There's a heavy focus on the intersection of AI and law ... but that's definitely an interesting space right now (and for the foreseeable future).

rg111 3y ago

Honestly, nothing can beat being active on Twitter/X.

d4rkp4ttern 3y ago
There is a huge cost to being on X/Twitter - you are transfixed by all the awesome-sounding mostly self-promotional posts and keep going into rabbit holes so you don’t have any time left to build your own things or pursue your own ideas. Of course you can limit yourself to say half hour a day, but there is also an emotional cost of seeing people working on similar ideas which can be quite deflating. So… I’ve not gone on Twitter for several months now and instead just use newsletters, HN, R/ML and R/LocalLlama to keep updated. My heuristic is that if something is significant it will bubble up on one of these. Besides the newsletters already mentioned here, for research trends I like the labml trending papers list and newsletter — https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly This is incidentally informed by Twitter trends so is a good proxy that helps me stay out of Twitter.

akumetsu 3y ago

Been a fan of The Batch by Andrew Ng for years

non- 3y ago

I hired a team of writers and researchers to help me create a daily summary of AI news at boteatbrain.com, we're not everyone's cup of tea, but if you just want to keep your wetted finger in the wind, then check us out.

Zetaphor 3y ago

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ahead Of AI https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/ https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/

cainxinth 3y ago

https://thehorizon.ai/ https://thehorizon.ai/

vccafe 3y ago

I send a weekly LinkedIn newsletter with the most notable generative AI developments Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6954740769651871744 https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?en...

riyasingh13 3y ago

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