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  • Integrate with scirate for that good good:

      https://scirate.com/
    But seriously, I don't of another place that centers academics up-voting papers without... well... actually citing them.
    by soganess
  • Sounds p cool
    by carloqc
  • Not undermining this effort, but one could always use notebookLM for that. Just paste arxiv pdf link in notebookLM and it generates a very good podcast that is also customizable through prompt.
    by vismit2000
  • Ah cool! Great to see accessibility stuff like this. Listening to papers makes it much easier for me to focus on the content.

    I made my own little service that converts any webpage to hopefully the parsed content then uses Google TTS and then published it to a bucket and s3 feed and I listen to them on my phone before bed.

    by kami23
  • Nice idea - would love to have some kind of daily mix with all the papers from my field / some way to prioritise them automatically based on the most important ones I should have read
    by joshsny
  • This looks like the Blinkist app's next evolution. Most of the summary tools you guys mentioned like notebookLLM, Scirate etc. cover general non-domain expertise and rely on simple RAG/knowledge bases.

    Academia definitely needs a tool that can parse complex equations, cross-links etc.

    I was using notebookLLM today with FAA aviation charts loaded and the tool still hallucinates and does not parse visual data (maps, charts) well. I can imagine that in the world of ArXiv papers similar level of complex charts and visualizations would not be processed properly

    by ewa-szyszka

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