What process do you use to stay on top of the new literature as it comes out?
I have a rough model of what to do to track organizational output: sign up for newsletters & RSS feeds, check their websites occasionally, ask them if I’ve missed anything near the end of the year.
I have no idea what to do to track the work coming out of academia (i.e. the stuff in your “Other Research” section) - arxiv seems like a morass to navigate. How do you stay on top of that?
Not the OP, but the Alignment Newsletter (which I write) should help for technical AI safety. I source from newsletters, blogs, Arxiv Sanity and Twitter (though Twitter is becoming more useless over time). I’d imagine you could do the same for other fields as well.
Arxiv sanity has become better at predicting what I care about as I’ve given it more data. I don’t think this is the whole story because the absolute number of papers I see on Twitter has gone down.
I did create my Twitter account primarily for academic stuff, but it’s possible that over time Twitter has learned to show me non-academic stuff that is more attention-grabbing or controversial, despite me trying not to click on those sorts of things.
Academics are promoting their papers less on Twitter.
Thanks, I found this very helpful!
What process do you use to stay on top of the new literature as it comes out?
I have a rough model of what to do to track organizational output: sign up for newsletters & RSS feeds, check their websites occasionally, ask them if I’ve missed anything near the end of the year.
I have no idea what to do to track the work coming out of academia (i.e. the stuff in your “Other Research” section) - arxiv seems like a morass to navigate. How do you stay on top of that?
I’m glad you found it helpful!
I don’t have a great system. I combined a few things:
1) Organisations’ websites
2) Backtracking from citations in papers, especially those published very recently
3) Author’s own websites for some key authors
4) ‘cited by’ in Google scholar for key papers, like Concrete Problems
5) Asking organisations what else I should read—many do not have up to date websites.
6) Randomly coming accross things on facebook, twitter, etc.
7) Rohin’s excelent newsletter.
Not the OP, but the Alignment Newsletter (which I write) should help for technical AI safety. I source from newsletters, blogs, Arxiv Sanity and Twitter (though Twitter is becoming more useless over time). I’d imagine you could do the same for other fields as well.
Thanks, I was also curious about how you sourced the newsletter :-)
Why do you think Twitter is degrading?
Not sure. A few hypotheses:
Arxiv sanity has become better at predicting what I care about as I’ve given it more data. I don’t think this is the whole story because the absolute number of papers I see on Twitter has gone down.
I did create my Twitter account primarily for academic stuff, but it’s possible that over time Twitter has learned to show me non-academic stuff that is more attention-grabbing or controversial, despite me trying not to click on those sorts of things.
Academics are promoting their papers less on Twitter.