Inspired by WikiTok, Papers Tok: An experiment to try to improve accessibility and discoverability of AI academic papers. (papers.infitok.com)
from Cat@ponder.cat to technology@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2025 09:57
https://ponder.cat/post/1729334

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tabular@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2025 10:30 next collapse

What does Tok mean here?

WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml on 22 Feb 2025 10:57 next collapse

I think they mean it is also infinite scrolling like tiktok and maybe even with algorithm.

Telorand@reddthat.com on 22 Feb 2025 16:39 next collapse

Almighty Algorithms, ew.

7toed@midwest.social on 22 Feb 2025 16:47 next collapse

If its goal to is to give scientific minds the hyperspecific hyperfixation they’ll end up wanting to study, I think we could make an exception. Until it peddles bullshit I guess

Ulrich@feddit.org on 22 Feb 2025 17:16 collapse

Algorithms are awesome when they don’t have ulterior motives.

infitok@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 03:51 collapse

Hey @WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml! There’s no algorithm in place as of now. However based on the feedback I received on Reddit, people want some sort of recommendation algorithm to get the most relevant papers.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 22 Feb 2025 17:16 collapse

It’s a reference to TikTok. In the case of “wikitok”, instead of browsing brainrot you flip randomly through Wikipedia articles. Check it out (on mobile): wikitok.vercel.app

In the case of OP it is similar except exclusively AI academic papers (click the OP link on mobile). The interesting thing is this appears to be a subset of another site that is yet to be launched, so presumably you could, in the future, be able to browse other lists by replacing the “papers” in the URL with some other topic.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world on 22 Feb 2025 11:11 collapse

That’s… Very specific.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 22 Feb 2025 12:55 next collapse

Why not just scientific papers I’m general? I don’t really care about AI.

infitok@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 03:47 collapse

Hey @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works Being an AI researcher, I’d initially just developed this as a prototype to get feedback from others in the field. Since, that’s accomplished, we’ve also added other arXiv categories!

Ulrich@feddit.org on 22 Feb 2025 17:26 next collapse

Judging by the URL I assume this site will serve a wide variety of specific topics. (ie: covid.infitok.com, nuclear.infitok, etc)

infitok@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 03:54 collapse

Oh yeah! Coming soon! :)

infitok@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 2025 03:44 collapse

Hey @gedaliyah@lemmy.world We’ve now added support to browse other categories on arXiv as well! Please check it out!