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by notmcrowley 24 days ago
Hey guys, I really appreciate all of the attention this post has received. I honestly thought it was going to be just a small project to help some of my friends get into reading research papers.

A large number of people complained about how intense some of the backgrounds/animations were (I might have been a bit too focused on making something that looked cool over usability). In response I have added toggles for both the movement on the page and the backgrounds for the papers.

Other people mentioned that they would have liked some more personalised reflections on each paper. I currently have already done some of these for the more popular papers on my X @notmcrowley . I would have no problem adding these to the site if people think it will help. I feel the need to warn that I have not been formally educated on ML or AI so any interpretation will just be mine and may not necessarily be the correct one. (If anyone with more experience would like to contribute to this feel free to reach out).

2 comments

Please add them on the site for those of us who have never had Twitter and don’t plan to open one ever. Thanks for this compilation, I am — like your friends — trying to get into reading research papers and this is right up my alley right now.
Even with the motion/background button toggles you are still left with tiny fonts that make it hard to read.

It actually made me check my browser wasn't set to zoom out. But then using zoom changes nothing, which breaks accessibility.

Also why does the header need to take up 3/4 of the screen?

[edit] Clicking on a paper doesn't even bring the paper up. I have to hit another click to get to it.