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by jramette 2y ago
That's awesome! We're just putting publicly available information (abstracts aggregated by the nonprofit Semantic Scholar) through a smarter and better search process, so there's no issues with Google. And we absolutely encou
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by jramette 2y ago
Appreciate the comments. One thing to note: how much compute it takes to "get everything" varies from search to search, and researchers don't always care about that and usually care most about getting a few specifically relev
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by jramette 2y ago
Yep, will add in full texts as we can in the future. Let me know if the percent of papers found as an indication of an exhaustiveness measure was clear? Reach out to us at support@undermind.ai if you'd be willing to provide more feedba
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by jramette 2y ago
Yes, this is one of the most important aspects of the tool; in cases where you care about getting everything, make sure to take a look at the estimated percent of papers found at the bottom of the summary section. That gives you a sense of
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by jramette 2y ago
Agreed, it used to be even harder. But on the other hand, there were also way less papers back then to have to sift through :)
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by jramette 2y ago
Love it.
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by jramette 2y ago
We'll certainly be able to include open access full texts, which is already a substantial fraction of the published papers, and a growing fraction too, as the publishing industry is rapidly moving toward open access. Paywalled full tex
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by jramette 2y ago
We've thought quite a bit about usage-based pricing, but found that doesn't work psychologically for most people. Generally, people seem happier by paying up front for access, then feel good about having the system available whene
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Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers
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