> Note that this skews the distribution heavily in favor of topics that are less common, but it should get the job done. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
You could use the max number of paper in each topic to weight it and make the distribution uniform.
That's a great point. I thought about something similar, but I also realized the arXiv numbers are growing like crazy, so I wonder how long it'll take for the (hardcoded) numbers to be deprecated. One could of course add some kind of cronjob to update the numbers, but that sounds like a lot of work...
One can also grab a random arXiv paper in HTML (via ar5iv), if that was desired.
Just visit:
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/feeling_lucky
Is the code for the "feeling lucky" selection mechanism open? Or, do you know how they select papers at random?
Thanks for this! If I knew this existed, I wouldn't have built the page myself.
> Note that this skews the distribution heavily in favor of topics that are less common, but it should get the job done. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
You could use the max number of paper in each topic to weight it and make the distribution uniform.
That's a great point. I thought about something similar, but I also realized the arXiv numbers are growing like crazy, so I wonder how long it'll take for the (hardcoded) numbers to be deprecated. One could of course add some kind of cronjob to update the numbers, but that sounds like a lot of work...