Papers, meet pocket.
On re-typesetting the scientific PDF for the hand
* building the reader you deserve.
every paper, reflowed to fit your phone. see it in full ↓
Abstract
The scientific PDF assumes a sheet of A4 paper. Most reading now happens on a digital screen. Latently takes any paper and turns it into a readable format that actually fits your phone, or whatever device you're using. Equations and figures come along too. I'm starting with a small alpha on iOS. 2 It's free while we're in alpha, and some papers still come out wrong.
2 a few hundred TestFlight seats. no card, you'll just need an iPhone or iPad.
1The problem
You know this feeling. You open a paper on your phone and zoom in so you can read it. Now every page is a little maze: down one column, back up, across to the next.
The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism.
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.
see? hostile.now keep reading ↓
By page 3 you save it for later — but later never comes.
2This is how it should be
The whole thing reflows to whatever width your screen is. That's it, that's the product. Exhibit B, the same abstract as set by Latently:
Attention Is All You Need
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.
ahh. better.
3Same paper, before and after
Drop in a PDF or link to a paper and watch it become something you can actually read on your phone.
(a) the PDF, on a phone
Attention Is All You Need
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality…
67% read4How it works
You give Latently a PDF. It takes the layout apart and rebuilds the paper as one column that fits whatever you're reading on. Figures stay near the text that mentions them. Equations are rendered properly.
Attention Is All You Need
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Attention Is All You Need
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality…
67% read5It remembers where you stop
Close the app on the train, open it in bed and you're back at the same paragraph.
6What the first release brings
The first release is about three things: the reflow, the equations, and your reading position. Everything else is on the note.