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João Batalha - https://twitter.com/joao_batalha - and Luís Batalha - https://twitter.com/luismbat - are cofounders of Fermat’s Library - https://fermatslibrary.com/ Fermat’s Library is a platform for annotating papers. Each week they send out a paper annotated by their community. Some recent papers were Birds and Frogs by Freeman Dyson - https://fermatslibrary.com/s/birds-and-frogs - and Von Neumann's First Computer Program by Donald Knuth - https://fermatslibrary.com/s/von-neumanns-first-computer-program They’ve also built a Chrome Extension call Librarian - https://fermatslibrary.com/librarian - for the arXiv which allows you to get direct links to references, do BibTeX extraction and make comments on papers. You can find them at https://fermatslibrary.com/ Read the transcript at https://blog.ycombinator.com/fermats-library-annotating-academic-papers-every-week
Exploring the concept behind Vermont, a platform designed for enhancing paper readability through annotations.
"you guys are brothers right yeah yeah okay he's the older one I'm two years younger okay and what made you want to start for Matt's library so oh so just for the people that don't know what it is Verm..."
This segment discusses the importance of open science practices and online collaboration in research, highlighting notable examples and trends.
"together with mica and one time I went to MIT time I studied economics and you studied CS yeah yeah so a lot of the papers are around physics math economics biology CS right yeah yeah because that was..."
This segment explores the evolution of open source platforms in science and the challenges of paper discoverability.
"that github as add yeah for open source open source of course existed much before github but but it has really allowed a lot more people to come in and be able to get into open source open source and ..."
This segment discusses the importance of implementing a rating system for academic papers to distinguish quality work and foster collaboration.
"archive that hasn't been peer reviewed or something about machine learning and I think that's why arc the librarian extension is so important it feels such as such as machine learning it so does the l..."
This segment explores how researchers are tackling common issues in academic publishing, including accessibility of references and the publication of negative results.
"solving problems that people have and nowadays and actually the we were largely inspired for our archive extension by the survey that the archive guys did where they write they add I don't know how ma..."
This segment discusses the importance of sharing the results of research, including negative outcomes, to prevent p-value hacking and foster collaboration among researchers.
"the results that you're presenting it that's alright that's that's the most important thing and so we've thought of doing something with Vermont there either via some API where you could like send us ..."
Exploring intriguing but lesser-known papers and their surprising findings on sleep and basketball phenomena.
"they're they're a bunch of people working on that there's there's this researcher at Stanford I'm forgetting his name it's John and then I forget his last name but he actually just went on this podcas..."
This segment explores the statistical phenomenon of improved performance on second attempts in free throw shooting and how it links to the Simpsons paradox.
"is not you're not more likely to make it if you made the first one but what they found is that you're just more likely to make it on your second one objectively significantly yeah okay and so and so t..."
Exploring how the length and complexity of scientific papers have changed over time.
"up hmm and so so you look at it and it's like okay what's going on here and it turns out is that what happened is that a lot more people got a degree so it just they just shift it towards higher educa..."
This segment explores the evolution of scientific paper length and complexity over time, comparing historical constraints to today's standards.
"and and I think that has added on to it but yeah nowadays they tend like the gravitation wave like that we annotate yeah that's relatively that's what like 15 pages maybe it would be interesting to an..."
This segment explores the importance of clarity in scientific writing and how impactful papers can effectively communicate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
"they were sort of working independently on that problem and and publishing papers on quantum electrodynamics and the the most impactful paper was actually published by Freeman Dyson who at the time to..."
This segment explores the inadequacies of traditional citation metrics and the need for new proxies to measure the impact of scientific papers.
"at the most cited papers in these different fields you might be surprised that there might not be the ones that you expect it to be I certainly remember looking at like the most cited papers in comput..."
This segment discusses the challenges of staying current in scientific publishing amidst rapid developments like machine learning and emphasizes the importance of a critical peer review process.
"top arsalan yaar Vesey asks it's basically about working in public and in the speed of publishing they say since scientific papers usually go through scrutiny and evaluation before getting published h..."
Discussing the need for continuously updated, open-source educational resources in classical mechanics and calculus.
"explaining what it is and but apart from that section the rest of the book is awesome it's really it's really nice if you want to learn classical mechanics but if I want to write the book that does a ..."
Exploring methods to retain and share knowledge from books through annotations and notes.
"like this you'd probably benefit from having some editor or like a team of editors pureed and to see okay what like should we add this should we not to an extent to to be some cute to be a curating vo..."
This segment explores the importance of annotated texts in enhancing comprehension and engagement with complex literature.
"retain the past that like I know yeah but I remember in school like in her back in Portugal we all have to read this epic poem that is like it's called the lucia leche and it was written but written b..."
This segment explores the balance between personal interests in research and the dedication required to effectively engage with and annotate scientific papers.
"I think it's easier for them because but yeah we the authors we see that a lot yeah just ask me questions I'll answer them but sometimes I don't know how to enhance or add content to the to my own pap..."
This segment explores the pressures and responsibilities of writing quality annotations in academic papers.
"pressure when you're writing these annotations yeah because people and people call you up on it okay this is wrong or you missed this and so when you're writing in you want to be really careful make s..."
Exploring how social media and collaboration inspire knowledge sharing and learning among researchers and the public.
"he came out with an alternative proof for that and the he sent he sent us that proof and I read the proof and it was apparently legit yeah and he stiii told him to submit that to to a journal a mat jo..."
Exploring the gradual progress and long-term impact of initiatives like Wikipedia and arXiv.
"Stack Overflow on projects that if you pitched them to me before they existed I would be very skeptical that they would be able to get to the point that they are today yeah of all the parallel univers..."
Exploring the approach to funding and sustainability in research platforms and the emergence of open access journals.
"what our ultimate vision is and to build that out but you know some things they just take some time so do you feel do you feel pressure to achieve like profitability or even like sustainability in the..."
This segment discusses the issues of paywalled journals and the potential for open journals to gain credibility and foster faster publication in rapidly evolving fields.
"of people talk about this right where you have journals the put content behind paywalls and that kind of might have been funded with public funds and and so right there's that whole discussion about t..."
Explore how to contribute to improving access to research and support open annotation initiatives.
"able to afford all the journals and so you just sometimes you just have a lot of trouble accessing research yeah and so this is not in the u.s. it is like big institutions have access to it but like i..."