Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
Do people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
It depends on the kind of people. Most normal people don't do that, it's not a reddit-like platform after all.
But most researchers and grad students (like me) often subscribe to daily mailing list of the papers dropping that day from their particular field. Having a cursory read at the paper titles and then opening the papers further relevant to you is a morning ritual for many.
Was for me as a physics grad student in 1995!
dedpends on your area of interests. Computer Science and yo ucan get more specifics like silicon methods or anything that has to do with that keyword. I look it up to see what new breakthroughs or ideas people are interested in. Then comes where does the research is hosted, from " University" , "large tech company", or independent. Also who is listed on the top. Must check the names to what other work they've have done, adds credit to the research.
I use the RSS feeds to watch for papers mentioning terms I'm curious about, do a casual skim for anything interesting and maybe end up finding a paper per month or two that are useful to read more carefully. Lots of chaff for sure, but if you have some core interests it's quite useful.
Yes, people do that. Karpathy made a utility to monitor it better years ago: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver
Yeah, it is not too uncommon that people visit the new listings (or subscribe to the email version) to (try to) keep track of what is going on in your field.
Supposing of course your field roughly matches one of the categories.
Yes, you can subscribe to an arXiv RSS feed for your specific research field (or register to email notifications if you prefer that), and get an overview of everything going on in your field.
In my field (condensed matter physics), most colleagues appear to monitor arXiv at least weekly.
I suggest Scholar Inbox.
https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing
It is a recommendation system for new papers that come out each day. If you train it a bit by specifying what you like and don't like you'll get a pretty reliable feed.
A bit too big and varied to browse, but you can get emails of all recent papers in your field(s) of interest with something like Scholars: https://app.scholars.io/newsletter I subscribe to "Functional Analysis" and get a weekly email listing 30-40 papers.
I built a bluesky bot if someone is interested in having a live feed of the articles.
You can find it here: https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social
https://www.alphaxiv.org/ is a nice place to browse, search for, and read ArXiv papers which have optional AI summaries and chat. If you like one paper, you can get a list of similar papers.
To view a specific paper, just take original link and change "arxiv" --> "alphaxiv". For example: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
Not all the time, but I certainly do to keep up with latest results. Usually, these days I go through SciRate, where the quantum computing community is very active in voting up good paper [1].
[1] https://scirate.com/arxiv/quant-ph
I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton.
I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad school. Then moved on.
I’m RSS-subscribed to a few sections relevant to my research.
I get google scholar alerts according to authors.
RSSFeed yes