[HN Gopher] My collection of machine learning paper notes
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My collection of machine learning paper notes
Author : yobibyte
Score : 187 points
Date : 2021-04-21 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.notion.so)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.notion.so)
| submagr wrote:
| This is cool stuff. I am planning to do something like this
| myself.
| bachmeier wrote:
| A bit of a tangent, but Notion is performing well for a post on
| the HN front page, even with equations.
| hs86 wrote:
| They just shipped a performance-related change:
| https://www.notion.so/blog/faster-page-load-navigation
|
| It is also mentioned on today's changelog:
| https://www.notion.so/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba...
| bhl wrote:
| That engineering blog post is a bit ambiguous to whether or
| not SQLite is also used in the browser web-app, which I'm
| presume is being used for most people who clicked on the
| link.
|
| So that could mean two things:
|
| - SQLite is being used in-memory, but things are still being
| flushed to IndexedDB for persistence? shouldn't help with
| faster page navigation here
|
| - SQLite is not being used, so it can't explain the
| performance increase
|
| I think the answer is more in the second link (changelog):
|
| > - *Your workspace is now more reliable after Apr 16, 2021's
| scheduled maintenance -- we upgraded from a single database
| instance to a sharded deployment, which means Notion is now
| capable of serving 3x as much traffic as before*
| yobibyte wrote:
| Do you think the equations are generated on the fly? I thought
| they are getting cached.
| whimsicalism wrote:
| I feel like they're either cached or generated client-side
| with MathJax. No chance they're being generated every single
| time.
| imadr wrote:
| They use KaTeX which is faster than MathJax
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| They're generated client-side using KaTeX[1]. That said the
| entire page is generated using JS meaning that someone
| visiting the site with JS disabled or using a text web
| browser will be greeted with a blank page. Nevertheless no-
| JS versions seem to be shown to bots since Google caches a
| plain HTML version of the same page[2].
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| [1]: https://www.notion.so/Math-
| equations-b4e9e4e03677413481a4910...
|
| [2]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:
| afS5a6...
| bhl wrote:
| Maybe it's just an oversight then when inline and block
| math was rolled out. KaTeX has a `renderToString`
| function that can be used to server-side render the
| LaTeX.
|
| On an other hand, Notion doesn't seem built to serve
| read-only webpages like a static blog or Medium.com: the
| expectation is that you'll use the editor, so assumption
| is javascript is enabled and the editor itself can be
| used to render a read-only view from JSON or however
| they're keeping document state.
|
| Opening dev tools on the website, it looks like they're
| just using Webpack (like React CRA?); not sure if they're
| changing the javascript bundle per page like with
| Next.js. It would make sense to not have server-side
| rendering if you're building both browser and desktop
| apps, since that would mean avoiding a separate framework
| only for the browser.
|
| Another clue is that people who try to use Notion as a
| CMS for their blogs had to build out a React library to
| emulate the feel of Notion itself:
| https://github.com/splitbee/react-notion
| https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x.
| [deleted]
| MattGaiser wrote:
| I thought they meant a pile of paper notes you could use for
| machine learning OCR or something.
| krisgee wrote:
| I thought it was going to be banknotes generated by ML based on
| the world's currencies.
| yobibyte wrote:
| Wait for my ICO!
| ptigas wrote:
| NFTs for paper notes
| lgats wrote:
| notes on machine learning papers
| albertzeyer wrote:
| Hi Vitaly! Nice to see you here on HN. :)
|
| I wonder how long you can keep up doing this. I once was
| motivated to also read a lot (although not strictly one paper a
| day) but once you get to have more and more deadlines (paper
| submissions etc) and then approach the end of your PhD, I gave
| up. Now that this is (mostly) over, I want to read more again.
|
| Also, I can recommend to keep a balance of papers close to your
| own research area (these are anyway a must, if you are serious
| about it) and also from further away. If you can manage to adopt
| techniques from other areas/fields, this usually results in great
| things.
| anitil wrote:
| I wonder if there's also a marginal effect here where early on
| each paper is contributing a lot to your knowledge base, but as
| time goes on the marginal contribution reduces.
|
| I haven't done a PhD (yet), but I get the sense that in the
| early years you spend a lot of time under water trying to swim.
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| Very nice. I especially like the structure (What?, Why?, How?,
| And?) which is shared for every note. Though it has fallen out of
| popularity, RSS will be useful. Overall the concept kinda reminds
| me [the morning paper](https://blog.acolyer.org). I wonder if
| there're similar attempts for other fields (math, physics, ...).
| yobibyte wrote:
| Thanks! This structure helps a lot when comparing your work to
| the related literature. I chose notion because editing (and
| adding a new note) causes as little pain as possible since it's
| hard to keep a pace of a paper a day. I do not know how to add
| RSS support here though =( But I'll keep that in mind.
| marwahaha wrote:
| I really like this. I recently started a similar project called
| the "arXiv wiki". Could you link future paper notes here?
|
| For example: https://arxiv.wiki/abs/2101.06861
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