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Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents

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152 points Gaishan | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 22:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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V__ ◴[22 Sep 25 22:23 UTC] No.45340359[source]▶
> Conventional research papers require readers to invest substantial effort to understand and adapt a paper's code, data, and methods to their own work [...]

But that's the point! If we take out the effort to understand, really understand something on a deeper level from even research, then how can there be anything useful build on top of it? Is everything going to loose any depth and become shallow?

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1. zaptheimpaler ◴[23 Sep 25 05:49 UTC] No.45343183[source]▶
Easy to say but have you ever read a paper and then a summary or breakdown of that paper by an actual person? Or compare a paper that you do understand very well with how you would explain it in a blog post.

The academic style of writing is almost purposefully as obtuse and dense and devoid of context as possible. Academia is trapped in all kinds of stupid norms.