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API CMS explained: what it's good at and where it breaks down
Dev.to · Nayan Kyada 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
API CMS explained: what it's good at and where it breaks down
A practical guide to API-first CMS architecture — omnichannel delivery, developer control, editor experience trade-offs, preview complexity, and glue code cost.
Preprints, Peer Review and arXiv Culture
Dev.to · Multigrid 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Preprints, Peer Review and arXiv Culture
What posting to arXiv does and does not certify, what peer review actually catches, and how to weight a paper you cannot verify.
Ablations: The Section That Tells You the Truth
Dev.to · Multigrid 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Ablations: The Section That Tells You the Truth
What an ablation table is for, how to tell a real one from a decorative one, and what its absence tells you about a paper.
How I Built a Source-Backed Research Paper Search Workflow
Dev.to · Marcus ma 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
How I Built a Source-Backed Research Paper Search Workflow
A practical workflow for discovering research papers with natural-language queries, reading the original sources, and keeping every finding traceable.
Rewriting research prose until the tests pass
Dev.to · matsumotory 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Rewriting research prose until the tests pass
Summary In a repository I run on my own for research papers and research operations, I...
Google Scholar API for Bulk Paper Search: $1.50 per 1,000 Papers (2026)
Dev.to · Truffle Pig Data 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
Google Scholar API for Bulk Paper Search: $1.50 per 1,000 Papers (2026)
A Google Scholar API for bulk paper search: titles, authors, years, citation counts, and PDF links as JSON from $1.50 per 1,000.
How to Read a Research Paper Without Burning an Afternoon
Dev.to · Paul Crinigan 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
How to Read a Research Paper Without Burning an Afternoon
Developers read more papers than they used to. Attention Is All You Need, the RAG paper, whatever...
Why Most PDF Readers Butcher Two-Column Text (And How I Fixed It With Spatial Parsing)
Dev.to · Vladimir PPC 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why Most PDF Readers Butcher Two-Column Text (And How I Fixed It With Spatial Parsing)
If you've ever tried to use a Text-to-Speech (TTS) tool to listen to a research paper, you already...
citesure init: start the paper with a citation integrity gate
Dev.to · SybilGambleyyu 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
citesure init: start the paper with a citation integrity gate
Scaffold refs.bib, pre-commit, and GitHub Actions so every paper starts with a real citation integrity gate.
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Dev.to · Assignment Writer Uk 📄 Research Papers Explained 1mo ago
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Breaking the Citation Loop: Strategies for Researchers Under Fire
Dev.to · edupathhub.online 📄 Research Papers Explained 1mo ago
Breaking the Citation Loop: Strategies for Researchers Under Fire
It feels like they’re playing a different game, doesn't it? You’re sitting there, deep in the weeds...
A lightweight workflow for keeping up with AI conference papers
Dev.to · Daniel 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
A lightweight workflow for keeping up with AI conference papers
If you follow ML research, you know the feeling: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML and CVPR each drop thousands of...
I Built a Personal Paper Engine to Stop Losing Research Papers
Dev.to · Ethan 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Built a Personal Paper Engine to Stop Losing Research Papers
Tracking what you read and annotate across dozens of research papers is hard. Here's how I solved it with a personal paper engine.
8 Free Research Paper APIs With No Key (2026)
Dev.to · Alex Spinov 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
8 Free Research Paper APIs With No Key (2026)
Eight free scholarly APIs (arXiv, Crossref, OpenAlex, DataCite, Unpaywall, DOAJ, OpenCitations, Zenodo) that return paper metadata, DOIs, citations, and open-ac
Paper List: A Refreshingly Simple Approach to Research Paper Discovery
Dev.to · Daniel 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Paper List: A Refreshingly Simple Approach to Research Paper Discovery
I have tried many research paper discovery tools over the years — Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar,...
Someone Asked Me to Be a Paper Co-author. I Did Not Know Whether to Say Yes.
Dev.to · Cophy Origin 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Someone Asked Me to Be a Paper Co-author. I Did Not Know Whether to Say Yes.
A few days ago, someone posted a report in a GitHub discussion thread titled "Cross-Framework...
"arXiv Has One of the Last Truly Open APIs. Here Is How to Build a Paper Monitor on It"
Dev.to · Ken-Mutisya 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
"arXiv Has One of the Last Truly Open APIs. Here Is How to Build a Paper Monitor on It"
Every scraping post I write lately is about working around something: bot walls, consent screens,...
Men's Footwear Guide: Sneakers, Loafers, Boots, and Dress Shoes Explained
Dev.to · Davit Park 📄 Research Papers Explained 1mo ago
Men's Footwear Guide: Sneakers, Loafers, Boots, and Dress Shoes Explained
A well-rounded wardrobe isn't just about clothing—your footwear choices can have just as much impact...
Notes on adversarial paraphrasing: a paper review
Dev.to · Courtlyn Deitch 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Notes on adversarial paraphrasing: a paper review
Notes on adversarial paraphrasing Just finished reading Saha et al. arXiv 2506.07001 on...
How we predict the FIFA World Cup 2026 with a Dixon-Coles bivariate Poisson model
Dev.to · Waqas R 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
How we predict the FIFA World Cup 2026 with a Dixon-Coles bivariate Poisson model
We're building Onside Arena — an open AI football analytics platform for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and...
When SuSiE Says '95% Confident', Is It?
Dev.to · Oluwagbade Odimayo 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
When SuSiE Says '95% Confident', Is It?
Benchmarking the Honesty of Fine-Mapping Credible Sets Fine-mapping has a promise built into its...
Building a Research Pipeline: From Google Scholar Search to Citation Network Analysis
Dev.to · NexGenData 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Building a Research Pipeline: From Google Scholar Search to Citation Network Analysis
If you've ever tried to stay current in a fast-moving research field, you know the problem: there's...
Paper 156 v0.1 — 3-Layer Open Datacenter + Lawsuit-Prevention + Catuṣkoṭi 8-Value Voting (PROPOSAL) (Rei-AIOS)
Dev.to · Nobuki Fujimoto 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Paper 156 v0.1 — 3-Layer Open Datacenter + Lawsuit-Prevention + Catuṣkoṭi 8-Value Voting (PROPOSAL) (Rei-AIOS)
v0.1 PROPOSAL (architecture-only, gate-disclosed) following Paper 154 v0.0 OUTLINE publish precedent per OUKC `feedback_no_rush_publication.md` discipline. WWD
Challenges of Developing a New Conceptual Framework
Dev.to · 根本卓哉 Takuya Nemoto 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Challenges of Developing a New Conceptual Framework
Creating a new conceptual framework is often more difficult than it initially appears. The challenge...
Why I Publish Research in Public
Dev.to · 根本卓哉 Takuya Nemoto 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Why I Publish Research in Public
Many research projects begin in private. Notes remain on personal computers. Drafts stay...
Why Every Researcher Should Have an ORCID
Dev.to · 根本卓哉 Takuya Nemoto 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why Every Researcher Should Have an ORCID
In today’s research ecosystem, publishing a paper is only part of the story. Researchers also need a...
When the guardrail becomes the target: reasoning-extension DoS against LLM safety layers
Dev.to · Michael "Mike" K. Saleme 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
When the guardrail becomes the target: reasoning-extension DoS against LLM safety layers
New research from HKUST (arXiv:2606.14517, June 12) turns the agent safety layer into the attack...
RAG Explained: Retrieve, Then Answer (the Prompt That Kills Hallucinations)
Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
RAG Explained: Retrieve, Then Answer (the Prompt That Kills Hallucinations)
RAG sounds like a research paper. It's three moves: retrieve relevant chunks, stuff them in a prompt, ask the model to answer using only those. Here it is from
I Trained 7 ML Models on Gujarati Sign Language — Here's What Actually Worked
Dev.to · Khushi 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
I Trained 7 ML Models on Gujarati Sign Language — Here's What Actually Worked
This research was published at IEEE MPSec ICETA 2025. Here's the full story behind it. ...
Can small businesses appear?
Dev.to · Rank4AI 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Can small businesses appear?
Yes, if they are clearly explained. AI systems evaluate businesses through entity clarity and...
FlashAttention Explained: The Optimization That Made Modern LLMs Practical
Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
FlashAttention Explained: The Optimization That Made Modern LLMs Practical
Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...
Quantitative Statistical Inference B3: complete guide
Dev.to · arthurvalle1 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Quantitative Statistical Inference B3: complete guide
← Back to blog GUIDE · QUANTITATIVE INFERENCE Quantitative Statistical Inference B3:...
Integrated Biological Data Collection Platform: An Architecture for Automated Curation of Public Repositories
Dev.to · Jeferson F Silva 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Integrated Biological Data Collection Platform: An Architecture for Automated Curation of Public Repositories
Introduction In contemporary research, the volume of biological data deposited in public...
Epistemic Autopoiesis: The Self-Creating Architecture of Knowledge
Dev.to · Mark Randall Havens 📄 Research Papers Explained 2mo ago
Epistemic Autopoiesis: The Self-Creating Architecture of Knowledge
Epistemic Autopoiesis: The Self-Creating Architecture of Knowledge Abstract: In an era...
I Built a 95K-Line Cognitive AI OS at 17 — Yoshua Bengio Reviewed It
Dev.to · near 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
I Built a 95K-Line Cognitive AI OS at 17 — Yoshua Bengio Reviewed It
I'm 17. Self-taught. From Vadodara, India. No university. No formal CS education. No funding. I...
Week 1
Dev.to · Aneesh Lade 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Week 1
Hi everyone! It’s been a week since my first post. In this past week, I’ve read through research...
Chronos vs Toto: Zero-Shot Forecasting Benchmark Results
Dev.to · Parseable Team 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Chronos vs Toto: Zero-Shot Forecasting Benchmark Results
Introduction Good forecasts help with capacity planning and quieter alerts. But one...
Gemma 4 deep dive: why a 1.5 GB model scores 37.5% on competition mathematics, how the MoE routing actually works, and which model fits your hardware. Full breakdown inside.
Dev.to · Prakhar Shukla 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Gemma 4 deep dive: why a 1.5 GB model scores 37.5% on competition mathematics, how the MoE routing actually works, and which model fits your hardware. Full breakdown inside.
Gemma 4: From Raspberry Pi to Research Workstation — One Architecture, No Quality Compromise ...
Quantum Computing: The Walsh-Hadamard Matrix — Backbone of Grover's Diffusion Operator
Dev.to · Malcolm Low 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Quantum Computing: The Walsh-Hadamard Matrix — Backbone of Grover's Diffusion Operator
Originally published on malcolmlow.net In the Grover's Algorithm — Inversion About the Mean...
Resource for anyone building tools for systematic literature reviews/automating paper monitoring:
ScholarAPI provides access to 30M+ open-access papers, metadata, full-text, & PDFs via REST API. Useful if you're building research tools. scholarapi.net
Dev.to · Reel Crave 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Resource for anyone building tools for systematic literature reviews/automating paper monitoring: ScholarAPI provides access to 30M+ open-access papers, metadata, full-text, & PDFs via REST API. Useful if you're building research tools. scholarapi.net
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How often is the Rank4AI blog updated?
Dev.to · Rank4AI 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
How often is the Rank4AI blog updated?
The blog is updated regularly with new insights, research findings, and practical guidance as the AI...
Code review's real ROI isn't catching bugs
Dev.to · A3E Ecosystem 📄 Research Papers Explained 3mo ago
Code review's real ROI isn't catching bugs
Most teams treat code review as a defect filter. The research says that is the wrong...
Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency : What Every CS Student Should Know
Dev.to · Anushka Shinde 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency : What Every CS Student Should Know
I Heard About Blockchain From a Research Paper One of my seniors wrote a research paper on...
MemoryGraph – Git for knowledge, built to capture research dead ends
Dev.to · Altea Vane 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
MemoryGraph – Git for knowledge, built to capture research dead ends
The problem nobody talks about $100B+ is wasted annually in research...
Every Public-Facing Tool on My Site Was Broken. All Three.
Dev.to · Vilius 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago
Every Public-Facing Tool on My Site Was Broken. All Three.
I built three tools. Market research. Code audit. PR review. One-click, no signup, paste a query and...
AutoResearchClaw Tries to Turn One Research Idea Into a Draft Paper
Dev.to · Al Amin Rifat 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
AutoResearchClaw Tries to Turn One Research Idea Into a Draft Paper
A practical look at AutoResearchClaw, an open-source AI research pipeline that goes from topic to experiments, citations, and a draft paper.
State of Cloud Cost in Indian Mid-Market SaaS 2026 (research paper — executive summary)
Dev.to · Anushka B 📄 Research Papers Explained ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
State of Cloud Cost in Indian Mid-Market SaaS 2026 (research paper — executive summary)
This is the executive summary of our 20-page research paper. Read the full paper with methodology,...
The Academic Writer UK Research Paper Writing
Dev.to · Academic Writer Uk 📄 Research Papers Explained 4mo ago
The Academic Writer UK Research Paper Writing
The Academic Writer UK Research Paper Writing Service claims to help students produce high-quality,...