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This is a great response and I wish more scientists held publications accountable to their reporting. MIT Tech Review, Popular Science and Mechanics are read by

by pvsnp 12y ago

This is a great response and I wish more scientists held publications accountable to their reporting. MIT Tech Review, Popular Science and Mechanics are read by a lot of people -- both literate in the your discipline and not, it's worthwhile to point the more nuanced view than what a 1000 word magazine article can point out. I've personally found reporting by ArsTechnica on recent security issues a good model. Wired occasionally comes through but has similar problems like this. Nautilus has its own biases but in general is good. I don't think bad reporting in these cases is necessarily out of malice but the lack of background on reporter's side on your field. And, perhaps sheer laziness. Remember when you procrastinated on writing that long overdue paper, I'd imagine reporters aren't immune to that too ;) Convolutional Neural Nets are getting to a hype-level that I find pretty scary. We don't want another AI winter because people expect way too much too early without understanding the domain, only to lead to receeded interest in the field. Honest evaluation and crediting is invaluable to ensuring that. Also --> What if there were a "rapgenius" for paper/article reviews where these comments from trusted sources can be curated and commented on? Not sure about viability, etc.. but could be interesting.

FanaHOVA 12y ago
Genius is currently building a tool to achieve exactly this. It's in beta as we speak, just put genius.com/ before any article URL to see an annotated version of it. For eaxmple, here's an annotated version of a "Eloquent Javascript" chapter [1]. If you want beta access get an account and shoot me a message there [2]. We* have been annotating tech articles/papers for a while though, they were stored in a sub-sub-channel of Rap Genius though and didn't get as much exposure. The best example is teh analysis of NewsWeek's story "The Face Behind Bitcoin" [3]. [1] http://genius.com/eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html http://genius.com/eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.htm... [2] http://genius.com/fanahova http://genius.com/fanahova [3] http://genius.com/Leah-mcgrath-goodman-the-face-behind-bitcoin-annotated/ http://genius.com/Leah-mcgrath-goodman-the-face-behind-bitco... *I don't work at Genius, but I've been an editor/mod/intern for the past 2-3 years working on various things including Tech Genius.
- pvsnp 12y ago
  Interesting, the analysis of NewsWeek story is pretty much what I was anticipating. It seems the Genius ecosystem has grown a fair amount since last I looked at it. I'd definitely like an account. Messaged you on Genius.
- thomasfoster96 12y ago
  Surprisingly or not, Marc Andreessen did a bit of annotating on that Bitcoin article.
- acjohnson55 12y ago
  That's very cool. If people make a habit of using this, this could be really handy for annotating programming tutorials. Just modified the HN bookmarklet to make a new bookmarklet to reload the current page in Genius: http://acjay.github.io/genius_bookmarklet.html http://acjay.github.io/genius_bookmarklet.html
  - nightpool 12y ago
    Haha great minds think alike! We've got a bookmarklet already: http://genius.com/bookmarklet http://genius.com/bookmarklet (you can only see the page if you're a beta tester) and a chrome extension coming that will tell you when you browse to a page that's already been annotated and let you switch to the annotated version. It's pretty cool stuff!
darkmighty 12y ago
Well reddit/HN has exactly this function for me. Sometimes I google the article title to get a reddit discussion. Specially in the more specialized subreddits (e.g. ComputerVision, Crypto, Mathematics) the discussion is very good.
toddkaufmann 12y ago
See http://hypothes.is/ http://hypothes.is/ for an open-source annotation-tools project with a lot of big minds behind it.
- pvsnp 12y ago
  Oh wow, this is actually perfect if it takes off - open standards, and straightforward from what I can tell.

by pvsnp 12y ago

FanaHOVA 12y ago

Genius is currently building a tool to achieve exactly this. It's in beta as we speak, just put genius.com/ before any article URL to see an annotated version of it. For eaxmple, here's an annotated version of a "Eloquent Javascript" chapter [1]. If you want beta access get an account and shoot me a message there [2]. We* have been annotating tech articles/papers for a while though, they were stored in a sub-sub-channel of Rap Genius though and didn't get as much exposure. The best example is teh analysis of NewsWeek's story "The Face Behind Bitcoin" [3]. [1] http://genius.com/eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.html http://genius.com/eloquentjavascript.net/05_higher_order.htm... [2] http://genius.com/fanahova http://genius.com/fanahova [3] http://genius.com/Leah-mcgrath-goodman-the-face-behind-bitcoin-annotated/ http://genius.com/Leah-mcgrath-goodman-the-face-behind-bitco... *I don't work at Genius, but I've been an editor/mod/intern for the past 2-3 years working on various things including Tech Genius.

pvsnp 12y ago
Interesting, the analysis of NewsWeek story is pretty much what I was anticipating. It seems the Genius ecosystem has grown a fair amount since last I looked at it. I'd definitely like an account. Messaged you on Genius.
thomasfoster96 12y ago
Surprisingly or not, Marc Andreessen did a bit of annotating on that Bitcoin article.
acjohnson55 12y ago
That's very cool. If people make a habit of using this, this could be really handy for annotating programming tutorials. Just modified the HN bookmarklet to make a new bookmarklet to reload the current page in Genius: http://acjay.github.io/genius_bookmarklet.html http://acjay.github.io/genius_bookmarklet.html
- nightpool 12y ago
  Haha great minds think alike! We've got a bookmarklet already: http://genius.com/bookmarklet http://genius.com/bookmarklet (you can only see the page if you're a beta tester) and a chrome extension coming that will tell you when you browse to a page that's already been annotated and let you switch to the annotated version. It's pretty cool stuff!

darkmighty 12y ago

Well reddit/HN has exactly this function for me. Sometimes I google the article title to get a reddit discussion. Specially in the more specialized subreddits (e.g. ComputerVision, Crypto, Mathematics) the discussion is very good.

toddkaufmann 12y ago

See http://hypothes.is/ http://hypothes.is/ for an open-source annotation-tools project with a lot of big minds behind it.

pvsnp 12y ago
Oh wow, this is actually perfect if it takes off - open standards, and straightforward from what I can tell.