Technical discussions of new research seem to have mostly disappeared in this subreddit, because researchers became a small fraction of its immense readership of 3e6 members.

So I created a subreddit to host such discussions. A “safe space” for researchers, if you will, with strict standards for content^1 . I seeded it with posts about a few recent papers I thought were interesting and my own takes on them, to get the discussion started.

But then I said to myself: “You don’t have time to manage a subreddit. WTF are you doing?” and deleted it all. Nevertheless, I’d like to see someone else, perhaps someone with more time, try to do it.


^1: Its main rule was: “No low-effort or low-expertise posts or comments: If your average ML PhD student, or someone with a higher level of expertise wouldn’t have posted something, then it does not belong here.” Other rules dealt with the format of the posts.

  • we_are_mammals@alien.topOPB
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    here constantly.

    Fortnightly. Finally got a chance to use this word :-) 4 links spanning 2 months.

    But even in these picks, take a look at the first one, for example. 10 comments. Only one of them suggests that the commentator looked at the paper itself.

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      1 year ago

      Those are just **four** links **I myself** have posted and they have ~75 comments on them. I pointed that out in the original comment but you skipped over that.

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        1 year ago

        I myself have posted

        But the point you were trying to prove was that the discussions were “constant”. How does picking your own threads spanning 2 months support it at all?

        The OP didn’t say that the discussions were completely gone. Yes, there are some, but pretty thin and usually glib. I don’t count “Wow! This is exciting. I’ll have to take a look at this awesome new paper!” as discussion. A bot harvesting upvotes could post this.