Librarian is a Chrome Extension that allows anyone to comment on any arXiv paper as well as get the Bibtex of the paper and links to its references. The place where a lot of scientists post their most recent findings before publishing on Journals should also be a place where open discussions around papers take place. Papers are usually dense and hard to read and there's so much information that can be added to a paper to make it more accessible: further explanations, data, presentations, videos, code etc. We think this is an important step towards open science and public collaboration/discussion about papers.
Hey HN, this is an experiment and we would like your help. We love Michael Nielsen's book and we think it's one of the best starting points to learn about Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Help us create the best place on the internet to learn about these topics by adding your annotations (comments, videos, lectures, blogposts...).
Hi md11235! We are thinking about allowing Fermat's Library to be used inside research groups as well. Shoot us an email with some more information about the use case you're envisioning so that we can set things up: team@fermatslibrary.com
Hi daveloyall, Thanks for the feedback. We are probably going to release a new version of this interface in a few weeks. We are planning to have the sidebar always visible (once you click in a comment) and then update the comments while the user navigates the paper, so that you don't have to click in every comment.
Librarian is a Chrome Extension that allows anyone to comment on any arXiv paper as well as get the Bibtex of the paper and links to its references. The place where a lot of scientists post their most recent findings before publishing on Journals should also be a place where open discussions around papers take place. Papers are usually dense and hard to read and there's so much information that can be added to a paper to make it more accessible: further explanations, data, presentations, videos, code etc. We think this is an important step towards open science and public collaboration/discussion about papers.
We wrote a blogpost about what led us to build this: https://medium.com/@fermatslibrary/comments-on-arxiv-papers-...