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by nuitblanche 5765 days ago
Ali,

I have some experience in the process of doing the filtering you are mentioning as I write a blog on compressed sensing (http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/), a field that spans a wide range of communities that are, often, not talking to each other nor have the same culture.

I don't think Mendeley or any RSS feed services help much as they both target the same dead tree people who are generally about two years behind on the good stuff. Arxiv is good but not all the communities use arxiv either and so it really is a mix of different tools that yield the most results.

I have a high interest in expanding and automating my current processes and would be very much willing to talk to somebody who would want to spend some time on this.

I also agree with one of the posters, how much do you think people would be willing to pay for this service ?

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I thought you meant you were using compressed sensing powered filters, maybe working on the summaries of papers from an RSS file.

That would be VERY interesting (and - dare I say it - probably impossible)