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Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development?
49 points by asasidh on Sept 10, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments
I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.


Personally I look at

https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent

or rather my transformer-powered RSS reader looks at it. This is very technical and quite raw and my own interest is not so much the cutting edge stuff but rather the people who are working on run-of-the-mill problems like my RSS reader.


What RSS reader do you use that is transformer powered? Or is it custom made?


Custom made, it is called YOShInOn. I will be blogging about it soon.

It's very solid for a demo, it's not inconceivable that it could be open sourced but it has some social media posting features that might be a little dangerous (e.g. it could really spam Hacker News, in fact the autoposter really pissed off somebody on the night shift when it was not coupled to YOShInOn and what it was posting wasn't so good)

It's also conceivable that it gets firmed up into a product for people who do "search" for a living such as salespeople, recruiters, patent search professionals, etc.


If you're looking for applications of AI, I find The Edge newsletter succinct and informative.

https://www.theedge.so/


I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ahead Of AI

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/


The monday roundups from Turing post are great. https://www.turingpost.com/


I might be biased, but I like superpowerdaily.com (I'm the creator) I spend 4-6 hours every night doing the research and putting it together.


Subscribed ... always wanted to know from a creator if its ok ....

1) what does research for running a newsletter look like? Many seem to curate a collection of content from other similar newsletters. Others seems to annotate and summarize. Is this ok?

2) How do you get audience .... any strategies that work? Or is it just have fun doing what you love and hope that audience show up


I send a weekly LinkedIn newsletter with the most notable generative AI developments

Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?en...


I'm a huge fan of Luis Villa's "Open(ish) Machine Learning News":

https://www.openml.fyi/

There's a heavy focus on the intersection of AI and law ... but that's definitely an interesting space right now (and for the foreseeable future).


I hired a team of writers and researchers to help me create a daily summary of AI news at boteatbrain.com, we're not everyone's cup of tea, but if you just want to keep your wetted finger in the wind, then check us out.


> applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.

Those topics seem too broad (and shallow?) for anyone to curate the firehouse effectively. There’s too much noise unless one is more selective.


It's the LinkedIn topics.


http://aitidbits.ai for a roundup of the recent AI papers, tools, and open-source libraries



I've been very impressed with "The AI Exchange", and their content.


Honestly, nothing can beat being active on Twitter/X.


There is a huge cost to being on X/Twitter - you are transfixed by all the awesome-sounding mostly self-promotional posts and keep going into rabbit holes so you don’t have any time left to build your own things or pursue your own ideas.

Of course you can limit yourself to say half hour a day, but there is also an emotional cost of seeing people working on similar ideas which can be quite deflating.

So… I’ve not gone on Twitter for several months now and instead just use newsletters, HN, R/ML and R/LocalLlama to keep updated. My heuristic is that if something is significant it will bubble up on one of these.

Besides the newsletters already mentioned here, for research trends I like the labml trending papers list and newsletter —

https://papers.labml.ai/papers/weekly

This is incidentally informed by Twitter trends so is a good proxy that helps me stay out of Twitter.


Been a fan of The Batch by Andrew Ng for years




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