What is Papers We Love?
Papers We Love is a community that reads and discusses academic computer science papers. It's a meetup group with an international presence and a yearly conference.
We're not exactly a chapter since we don't meet, but @hoelzro and I thought it would be fun to start a PWL-like discussion group here on DEV.to.
What kinds of things would folks here like to read and talk about for our initial "meeting"? The papers repository collects an intimidating number of papers and topics to choose from, but I thought we could maybe start with one of these three broad categories:
Please comment or react if you want to participate so we can gauge interest, and if one of these three topics speaks to you (or there's something else you really want to read and talk about), please vote in the comments below. @hoelzro will announce our first paper and open the discussion thread on Monday.
Top comments (26)
I really like papers about type systems or programming languages, recently I read Extensible Records with Scoped Labels which is really good (I actually made it the basis of my bachelors thesis).
As a side note (and a shameless plug :D), together with a few fellow students, I co-authored a paper about the control software of our satellite that will launch in 11 days! The paper was presented an published at EUCASS
waves hello fellow satellite engineer :)
I'm going to vote for Distributed Systems and Gamification, I used to work with a research team in BT looking at massive scale online games..
So we have three votes for ethics, two for gamification, and one for distributed systems so far. I was looking at the PWL ethics category and the pickings are pretty slim - just one paper from 1984, which I suspect might not be terribly relevant right now. I found several free papers on Academia.edu that seem promising, but not having read them yet, I can't vouch for quality. Here are a few general topics and themes that popped up in an initial search:
Gamification and Distributed Systems have more robust options available in the PWL repo, which is nice because they've already been vetted by the PWL community.
Let me know if any of the above topics particularly sticks out, and I'll link a few papers here and we can narrow down what we'd like to focus on for our first discussion.
Also, if you have ideas on how better to choose a paper as a group, lmk.
So I just noticed that the ethics paper in the PWL repo is "Reflecting on Trusting Trust", which, IMO, has a few things going for it:
If we wanted to pick a gamification paper, I think "Defining Gamification - A Service Marketing Perspective" would be a good start, since it's also quite short, and defining the term we're reading about would be a good foray into the topic, I think =)
Among the topics you posted above, the following stick out to me as being particularly interesting:
Ethics and concerns of social networking and Utilization of personal health data seem interesting just going from the title.
I know this is an old thread, but in case there's anyone thinking of reviving this, I'm totally in. I don't have a CS education and have only glanced at a few papers, but would like to do more of that and especially discuss with other folks.
Agreed!
I'm slowly getting into reading more distributed systems papers, and I love them! I never took any distributed systems classes in university, but academic/industry papers are how I've been exposing myself to the subject.
Ethics!
Was recently chatting with @picocreator on what kind of developer education is missing, and the big one is ethics.
I like distributed systems, parallelism, web Scraping and aggregation, cloud computing, and things of that sort. My interest in web Scraping also has caused a fascination with bot architecture and design along with thinking about how a bot to keep bots out could be designed better than bots that try to get in.
I think I can probably scare one up :)
Edit: I've definitely found at least a couple
This is awesome. @shubheksha had some posts summarizing papers which were great. (Not like, viral hits, it's not exactly an easy read, but great nonetheless)
Robustness in Complex Systems: A Summary
Shubheksha Jalan
I think the social discussion aspect is awesome. I would definitely come for this kinds of chats and probably ask some dumb questions. 😄
Super interested!
I vote for distributed systems or ethics!
Distributed Ethics?
Yah like Facebook. You "distribute" the ethics to other people so that when they get caught with the customer data you've also distributed to them, you can wag your finger at them, and watch them go bankrupt. That's distributed ethics right? 😋😋
Jess, @hoelzro , are you going to use the #pwl tag? Or if you go with something else, just let me know and I’ll make you mods of the tag.
The #pwl tag makes sense to me. Unless we can come up with something better, I think we should use that. It's unique and easy to remember.
Works for me (I’ve learned not to overthink this)
@hoelzro and @thejessleigh , ya'll are now the moderators of #pwl. To support the tag, visit dev.to/t/pwl/edit!