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Papers We Love

247 points by talles 12y ago

mkrdouble 12y ago
Thank you for posting this. This is the kind of thing I come to HN for.
sbilstein 12y ago
Rad! Reading CS/engineering papers with friends is such a rewarding activity. You get to learn about cutting edge research, work with others to understand what can sometimes be extremely confusing academic speak, and it is a surprising amount of fun
jeremyh 12y ago
Thanks for posting this! The paper repository is the core of Papers We Love, but the meetups are where many people connect. All the chapters rely on sponsorships to operate. If your company or organization is interested in sponsoring a chapter, please contact the chapter lead. Whether it's space, food, or AV, sponsorship is much appreciated and helps keep the meetups going. Thank you!
bowmanb 12y ago
Thanks for posting! I'm an organizer of PWL NYC. PWL started as a CS paper reading group at our old company. In about a year it became a GitHub repo with 11k+ stars and a global group of high quality Meetups. It's been an inspiring journey so far and we have our great community and speakers to thank. As Jeremy already mentioned, if you're interested in sponsoring (or speaking!), please get in touch.
colinbartlett 12y ago
Incidentally, what is that distinctive font that seems to be used by every academic paper (and this website)? And is there a story behind its ubiquity?
- ot 12y ago
  Computer Modern, designed by Knuth, is the default font in Tex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
- hieronymusN 12y ago
  As ot noted, it is Computer Modern - more about the font and design choices here http://www.v25media.com/work/paperswelove/ http://www.v25media.com/work/paperswelove/
ot 12y ago
I've been attending the Papers We Love SF for a few months and it has been consistently awesome. If you are in the Bay Area consider stopping by the next meetup. http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/ http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/
notthetup 12y ago
If happen to be in Singapore, you can join the Singapore Chapter of Papers We Love here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/
amelius 12y ago
This is interesting. But I have a question about scientific papers in general, that perhaps somebody here can answer. Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? I always have to do a small investigation to find out when a paper was published/accepted approximately. Also, I'm wondering why there is no public online discussion forum for scientific papers in general. I would have expected that google-scholar would have filled this gap by now.
- mercer 12y ago
  I think ResearchGate is trying to fill this gap (and perhaps Academia too?).
- denzil_correa 12y ago
  > Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? The Camera Ready Copy (CRC) usually does have a year (and sometimes even the month, date) on the first page right below the abstract.
- claudius 12y ago
  > Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? Something like: (Received 2 September 2014; revised manuscript received 7 January 2015; published 23 January 2015) (from the most recent PRB)? arXiv is a bit worse with their non-selectable timestamp on the RHS of the first page, but they have month and year in the ID and a submission history on the paper’s page, so I don’t see much of an issue there. > Also, I'm wondering why there is no public online discussion forum for scientific papers in general. I would have expected that google-scholar would have filled this gap by now. The scientific community is sufficiently diverse that it would be difficult to establish one discussion forum. Plus the people whose comments are most valuable would likely be hesitant to comment publicly in writing on their competitors’ papers.
  - amelius 12y ago
    > The scientific community is sufficiently diverse that it would be difficult to establish one discussion forum. Have a look at stack-exchange. It is a discussion forum for a diverse group of people. > Plus the people whose comments are most valuable would likely be hesitant to comment publicly in writing on their competitors’ papers. Well, a forum at least could help people to actually understand the papers. Also, but this is for the more distant future, the scientific rating system could be extended with a score for the most insightful comments (besides just a score for the number of citations).
cogburnd02 12y ago
One of the more interesting papers I've read (which you/they don't have) is 'A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael.' [1] The paper contains equations which if solved would reveal a major weakness in Rijndael/AES, the current standard for actual TOP SECRET Classified information. [2] [1] http://taz.newffr.com/TAZ/Cryptologie/hash-lib-algo/aes/rdalgeq.pdf http://taz.newffr.com/TAZ/Cryptologie/hash-lib-algo/aes/rdal... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Se...
- hieronymusN 12y ago
  Feel free to add the paper to the repo
hieronymusN 12y ago
The NYC Chapter meets monthly - http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ Our next meetup is Feb 5th w/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt discussing Composable and Compilable Macros. If you're in the metro area please stop by!
ehurrell 12y ago
Papers We Love is excellent, some great papers. I forked the repo a while ago, was considering hosting one in Dublin. I think here at least the community seems to have a lot of non-CS people who I'd love to hear from too.

247 points by talles 12y ago

Thank you for posting this. This is the kind of thing I come to HN for.

Rad! Reading CS/engineering papers with friends is such a rewarding activity. You get to learn about cutting edge research, work with others to understand what can sometimes be extremely confusing academic speak, and it is a surprising amount of fun

jeremyh 12y ago

Thanks for posting this! The paper repository is the core of Papers We Love, but the meetups are where many people connect. All the chapters rely on sponsorships to operate. If your company or organization is interested in sponsoring a chapter, please contact the chapter lead. Whether it's space, food, or AV, sponsorship is much appreciated and helps keep the meetups going. Thank you!

bowmanb 12y ago

Thanks for posting! I'm an organizer of PWL NYC. PWL started as a CS paper reading group at our old company. In about a year it became a GitHub repo with 11k+ stars and a global group of high quality Meetups. It's been an inspiring journey so far and we have our great community and speakers to thank. As Jeremy already mentioned, if you're interested in sponsoring (or speaking!), please get in touch.

colinbartlett 12y ago

Incidentally, what is that distinctive font that seems to be used by every academic paper (and this website)? And is there a story behind its ubiquity?

ot 12y ago
Computer Modern, designed by Knuth, is the default font in Tex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
hieronymusN 12y ago
As ot noted, it is Computer Modern - more about the font and design choices here http://www.v25media.com/work/paperswelove/ http://www.v25media.com/work/paperswelove/

ot 12y ago

I've been attending the Papers We Love SF for a few months and it has been consistently awesome. If you are in the Bay Area consider stopping by the next meetup. http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/ http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/

notthetup 12y ago

If happen to be in Singapore, you can join the Singapore Chapter of Papers We Love here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/paperswelovesg/

amelius 12y ago

This is interesting. But I have a question about scientific papers in general, that perhaps somebody here can answer. Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? I always have to do a small investigation to find out when a paper was published/accepted approximately. Also, I'm wondering why there is no public online discussion forum for scientific papers in general. I would have expected that google-scholar would have filled this gap by now.

mercer 12y ago
I think ResearchGate is trying to fill this gap (and perhaps Academia too?).
denzil_correa 12y ago
> Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? The Camera Ready Copy (CRC) usually does have a year (and sometimes even the month, date) on the first page right below the abstract.
claudius 12y ago
> Why don't papers have a big timestamp on the first page? Something like: (Received 2 September 2014; revised manuscript received 7 January 2015; published 23 January 2015) (from the most recent PRB)? arXiv is a bit worse with their non-selectable timestamp on the RHS of the first page, but they have month and year in the ID and a submission history on the paper’s page, so I don’t see much of an issue there. > Also, I'm wondering why there is no public online discussion forum for scientific papers in general. I would have expected that google-scholar would have filled this gap by now. The scientific community is sufficiently diverse that it would be difficult to establish one discussion forum. Plus the people whose comments are most valuable would likely be hesitant to comment publicly in writing on their competitors’ papers.
- amelius 12y ago
  > The scientific community is sufficiently diverse that it would be difficult to establish one discussion forum. Have a look at stack-exchange. It is a discussion forum for a diverse group of people. > Plus the people whose comments are most valuable would likely be hesitant to comment publicly in writing on their competitors’ papers. Well, a forum at least could help people to actually understand the papers. Also, but this is for the more distant future, the scientific rating system could be extended with a score for the most insightful comments (besides just a score for the number of citations).

cogburnd02 12y ago

One of the more interesting papers I've read (which you/they don't have) is 'A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael.' [1] The paper contains equations which if solved would reveal a major weakness in Rijndael/AES, the current standard for actual TOP SECRET Classified information. [2] [1] http://taz.newffr.com/TAZ/Cryptologie/hash-lib-algo/aes/rdalgeq.pdf http://taz.newffr.com/TAZ/Cryptologie/hash-lib-algo/aes/rdal... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Security http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Se...

hieronymusN 12y ago
Feel free to add the paper to the repo

hieronymusN 12y ago

The NYC Chapter meets monthly - http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love/ Our next meetup is Feb 5th w/ Sam Tobin-Hochstadt discussing Composable and Compilable Macros. If you're in the metro area please stop by!

ehurrell 12y ago

Papers We Love is excellent, some great papers. I forked the repo a while ago, was considering hosting one in Dublin. I think here at least the community seems to have a lot of non-CS people who I'd love to hear from too.