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.
Latest comments (25)
I would like to read about information security modeling techniques and new ways to use cryptography.
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!
Ethics!!
This is an interesting idea. Out of those three, I'll put a vote in for ethics.
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!
great initiative! I like reading papers on databases, distributed systems, machine learning.
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 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