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Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.

jjgreen 3mo ago
A bit too big and varied to browse, but you can get emails of all recent papers in your field(s) of interest with something like Scholars: https://app.scholars.io/newsletter https://app.scholars.io/newsletter I subscribe to "Functional Analysis" and get a weekly email listing 30-40 papers.
SiempreViernes 3mo ago
Yeah, it is not too uncommon that people visit the new listings (or subscribe to the email version) to (try to) keep track of what is going on in your field. Supposing of course your field roughly matches one of the categories.
embedding-shape 3mo ago
I use the RSS feeds to watch for papers mentioning terms I'm curious about, do a casual skim for anything interesting and maybe end up finding a paper per month or two that are useful to read more carefully. Lots of chaff for sure, but if you have some core interests it's quite useful.
kmaitreys 3mo ago
It depends on the kind of people. Most normal people don't do that, it's not a reddit-like platform after all. But most researchers and grad students (like me) often subscribe to daily mailing list of the papers dropping that day from their particular field. Having a cursory read at the paper titles and then opening the papers further relevant to you is a morning ritual for many.
- PaulHoule 3mo ago
  Was for me as a physics grad student in 1995!
evanb 3mo ago
I’m RSS-subscribed to a few sections relevant to my research.
Ariarule 3mo ago
Yes, people do that. Karpathy made a utility to monitor it better years ago: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver
alphabeta3r56 3mo ago
RSSFeed yes
rubidium 3mo ago
I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton. I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad school. Then moved on.
emadb 3mo ago
I built a bluesky bot if someone is interested in having a live feed of the articles. You can find it here: https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social
abdullahkhalids 3mo ago
Not all the time, but I certainly do to keep up with latest results. Usually, these days I go through SciRate, where the quantum computing community is very active in voting up good paper [1]. [1] https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph
cschmidt 3mo ago
I suggest Scholar Inbox. https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing It is a recommendation system for new papers that come out each day. If you train it a bit by specifying what you like and don't like you'll get a pretty reliable feed.
pks016 3mo ago
I get google scholar alerts according to authors.
KludgeShySir 3mo ago
https://www.alphaxiv.org/ https://www.alphaxiv.org/ is a nice place to browse, search for, and read ArXiv papers which have optional AI summaries and chat. If you like one paper, you can get a list of similar papers. To view a specific paper, just take original link and change "arxiv" --> "alphaxiv". For example: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
setopt 3mo ago
Yes, you can subscribe to an arXiv RSS feed for your specific research field (or register to email notifications if you prefer that), and get an overview of everything going on in your field. In my field (condensed matter physics), most colleagues appear to monitor arXiv at least weekly.
mahirsaid 3mo ago
dedpends on your area of interests. Computer Science and yo ucan get more specifics like silicon methods or anything that has to do with that keyword. I look it up to see what new breakthroughs or ideas people are interested in. Then comes where does the research is hosted, from " University" , "large tech company", or independent. Also who is listed on the top. Must check the names to what other work they've have done, adds credit to the research.

jjgreen 3mo ago

A bit too big and varied to browse, but you can get emails of all recent papers in your field(s) of interest with something like Scholars: https://app.scholars.io/newsletter https://app.scholars.io/newsletter I subscribe to "Functional Analysis" and get a weekly email listing 30-40 papers.

SiempreViernes 3mo ago

Yeah, it is not too uncommon that people visit the new listings (or subscribe to the email version) to (try to) keep track of what is going on in your field. Supposing of course your field roughly matches one of the categories.

embedding-shape 3mo ago

I use the RSS feeds to watch for papers mentioning terms I'm curious about, do a casual skim for anything interesting and maybe end up finding a paper per month or two that are useful to read more carefully. Lots of chaff for sure, but if you have some core interests it's quite useful.

kmaitreys 3mo ago

It depends on the kind of people. Most normal people don't do that, it's not a reddit-like platform after all. But most researchers and grad students (like me) often subscribe to daily mailing list of the papers dropping that day from their particular field. Having a cursory read at the paper titles and then opening the papers further relevant to you is a morning ritual for many.

PaulHoule 3mo ago
Was for me as a physics grad student in 1995!

evanb 3mo ago

I’m RSS-subscribed to a few sections relevant to my research.

Ariarule 3mo ago

Yes, people do that. Karpathy made a utility to monitor it better years ago: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver

alphabeta3r56 3mo ago

RSSFeed yes

rubidium 3mo ago

I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton. I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad school. Then moved on.

emadb 3mo ago

I built a bluesky bot if someone is interested in having a live feed of the articles. You can find it here: https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social

abdullahkhalids 3mo ago

Not all the time, but I certainly do to keep up with latest results. Usually, these days I go through SciRate, where the quantum computing community is very active in voting up good paper [1]. [1] https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph

cschmidt 3mo ago

I suggest Scholar Inbox. https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing It is a recommendation system for new papers that come out each day. If you train it a bit by specifying what you like and don't like you'll get a pretty reliable feed.

pks016 3mo ago

I get google scholar alerts according to authors.

KludgeShySir 3mo ago

https://www.alphaxiv.org/ https://www.alphaxiv.org/ is a nice place to browse, search for, and read ArXiv papers which have optional AI summaries and chat. If you like one paper, you can get a list of similar papers. To view a specific paper, just take original link and change "arxiv" --> "alphaxiv". For example: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

setopt 3mo ago

Yes, you can subscribe to an arXiv RSS feed for your specific research field (or register to email notifications if you prefer that), and get an overview of everything going on in your field. In my field (condensed matter physics), most colleagues appear to monitor arXiv at least weekly.

mahirsaid 3mo ago

dedpends on your area of interests. Computer Science and yo ucan get more specifics like silicon methods or anything that has to do with that keyword. I look it up to see what new breakthroughs or ideas people are interested in. Then comes where does the research is hosted, from " University" , "large tech company", or independent. Also who is listed on the top. Must check the names to what other work they've have done, adds credit to the research.