[simonw]

Hacker News isn't a great place to discuss papers generally.

Having a productive discussion around a paper requires at least reading and understanding the abstract, and the most successful content on HN (sadly) is content where people can jump in with an opinion purely from reading the headline.

Anyone know of any forums that are good for discussing papers?

[tptacek]

This is true across all research subject areas (I'm not especially tuned into LLM research but am to cryptography, which also happens to be a field that gets a lot of play on HN). I think it's just a function of how many people conversant in the field are available to talk about it at any one time.

[irishcoffee]

I just email the authors with questions. Surprisingly high response rate.

[gcr]

/R/MachineLearning is not bad

But the gold standard is a small signal or discord community of like-minded, fairly tight knit friends. You may have to organize this yourself

[gessha]

There are/were isolated communities on Discord around fast.ai, MLC, MLOps that talk papers more in depth but it’s hard to organize a community without commercial or academic incentive.

[fc417fc802]

The difficulty is perhaps unsurprising given the time sink that is reading a given paper to any reasonably complete degree of understanding.

[gavinray]

Unironically, very niche subreddits.

[simonw]

... and this thread over here seems to be proving me wrong already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779