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.
I believe that’s the goal of /r/learningmachines .
You should contribute there.
Hot damn, thanks for the link drop
No idea whether the current atmosphere in /r/machinelearning is temporary or permanent.
It could be the case after a year or so the newer people will trickle out leaving it to the usual deep learning hype train with a good post once a month or so.
I’m fairly certain it is permanent. Same thing happened with WallStreetBets. Occasionally browsing that subreddit was a lot of fun before the GME madness (and even in the early part of). Now the sub has lost a lot of the character it had before.
I imagine the same thing will happen here. Changes in the atmosphere of the subreddit will slowly push pre-ChatGPT members to look elsewhere for research / project related discussion and even after the hype dies down, they likely won’t come back here having founds / made communities elsewhere.
TBH this sub would be a lot better if they banned OpenAI news/rumors.
I don’t even mind the “I’m a noob, why won’t my model train” posts - at least those people have genuine interest in ML and are trying to learn. OpenAI news attracts people who have a more science-fiction idea of AI and are just interested in the hype.
No it wouldn’t. It would be far worse. OpenAI news is often the only news which I see is actually relevant on the front page.
If the mods were strict like r/askhistorians and just banned all posts that dont lead to high level discussions, that would be great.
most active mod left when reddit removed api access
I’m interested
So do engineering innovations make sense for discussions?
I would love for someone to do extensive experimentation on best practices for RAG- including implications on cost, latency and performance (precision), etc.
It’s not the very latest per se, but knowing the differences and tricks to reduce wall time would be amazing.
There’s plenty of technical discussions. Join them and actually contribute something to them instead of starting these garbage posts.
The premise of this post is so weird… we have TONS of technical convos in this sub
We have technical discussions of new research here constantly.
These are just my posts and there are many others:
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.
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.
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.