Researcher cites more blogposts and HF links than papers, blames academia

antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-09

antoinechaffin, writing a related work section, finds himself citing more blogposts and Hugging Face links than actual papers — even preprints. While academic reviewers would flag it, he argues this says more about academia: many valuable insights live in obscure blogposts whose authors never bothered submitting, and they're more interesting than most papers he's seen lately.

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