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Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally. Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abst
by simonw 7mo ago
Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally.
Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline.
Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?
- irishcoffee 7mo agoI just email the authors with questions. Surprisingly high response rate.
- breppp 7mo ago[flagged]
- tptacek 7mo agoThis is true across all research subject areas (I'm not especially tuned into LLM research but am to cryptography, which also happens to be a field that gets a lot of play on HN). I think it's just a function of how many people conversant in the field are available to talk about it at any one time.
- gessha 7mo agoThere are/were isolated communities on Discord around fast.ai, MLC, MLOps that talk papers more in depth but it’s hard to organize a community without commercial or academic incentive.
- fc417fc802 6mo agoThe difficulty is perhaps unsurprising given the time sink that is reading a given paper to any reasonably complete degree of understanding.
- gcr 7mo ago/R/MachineLearning is not bad But the gold standard is a small signal or discord community of like-minded, fairly tight knit friends. You may have to organize this yourself
- gavinray 7mo agoUnironically, very niche subreddits.
- simonw 6mo ago... and this thread over here seems to be proving me wrong already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779