undefined | Better HN

0 pointscypress662y ago0 comments

You don't need to be doing research to read an ML paper. With some general knowledge in AI you should be able to understand most papers.

And even then, sometimes you don't understand or care about their procedures, and you just want to look at the pretty results (check out this song they generated using AI!). There's even a very popular YouTube channel that focuses on this (two minute papers).

Finally, you usually hear about these cool papers via Twitter / X

0 comments

1 comments · 1 top-level

brmgb2y ago

> You don't need to be doing research to read an ML paper. With some general knowledge in AI you should be able to understand most papers.

I have a degree which involved reading some ML papers and I seriously doubt that. The field is flooded with papers which looks good when you quickly read them but are actually worthless because they misrepresent the state of the art or intentionally don’t compare their methods with other papers they should know.

> And even then, sometimes you don't understand or care about their procedures, and you just want to look at the pretty results

That’s fair but I wouldn’t call that reading a scientific paper.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse