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 —
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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.