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Markus Strasser
Personal blog · markusstrasser.orgaisciencewriting
Markus Strasser's personal blog at markusstrasser.org covers ai, science and writing. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Nothing of what makes science work is published as text on the web”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on extracting knowledge from academic literature with LLMs and on the business of academic publishing. Commenters link the original post and cite it for the point that papers are low signal-to-noise for knowledge.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Art, essays on neuroscience and creative work, interactive programs
Most-linked posts?
- Nothing of what makes science work is published as text on the web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-03
- The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-08
What Hacker News says?
Papers are ridiculously low signal-to-noise when it comes to knowledge. (see https://markusstrasser.org/extracting-knowledge-from-literat... ... but sure, LLMs might have a better extraction rate) And, importantly if papers become so valuable ... authors will suddenly start to want their cut and will go to the publisher that pays the more. And so on. It would be amazing if papers would worth that much (as it would m…
Comment linking /extracting-knowledge-from-literature.html
on “The data that powers AI is disappearing fast”Submitted The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications as a story · 285 points
HN discussionAuthor's original post: https://markusstrasser.org/extracting-knowledge-from-literat... Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29481061
Comment linking /extracting-knowledge-from-literature/
on “The business of extracting knowledge from academic publications”Submitted Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nothing of what makes science work is published as text on the web as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rating the Rater: Training Tasteful Generative Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Even Perfect Decoder-only BCIs will be less precise than motor channels (HANDS) as a story · 2 points
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