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japoneristoday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Well, i do not understand the concept. Maybe i am too used to read paper: read the abstract to get a digest of the results, read the intro to understand the problem, skip all the rest as it is too technical or only for benchmark. In the app, i selected a few paper, as i did not know anything about the selecter paper, comparing frog A doing magic stuff is helpless. Yet, the interface is great, i think this can be improve for true understanding.


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jbdamasktoday at 8:10 PM

I hear you.

For me personally, the pain point is being interested in more papers than I can consume so I’ve gotten into the habit of loading papers into LLMs as a way to quickly triage. This app is an extension of my own habit.

I also have friends without scientific backgrounds who are interested in topics of research papers but can’t understand them. The reason for the cutesy name, Now I Get It!, is because the prompt steers the response to a layperson