Aeon Paper Pick
Surface the one AI / ML paper to read today from Hugging Face Papers, with the central...
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npx skills add BankrBot/skills --skill aeon-paper-pick -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
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- Data and ML
- Updated
- 4d ago
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What it does
Surface the one AI / ML paper to read today from Hugging Face Papers, with the central claim, why it's worth an hour, where it might be wrong, and a time-budgeted read order. Filters out pure benchmark-chasing and incremental scaling reports. Use as a daily morning brief input for AI-savvy operators. Triggers: "one paper to read today", "best AI paper today", "what's the must-read paper", "HF Papers top pick".
aeon-paper-pick
One paper per day. Not a digest, one pick, with a short brief that lets the reader decide whether to invest the next hour.
How the pick works
- Fetch last 24h of HF Papers (
https://huggingface.co/papers). - Drop pure benchmark-chasing (new SOTA on existing leaderboard, no method change), incremental scaling reports, and position papers without empirical claims.
- Score survivors on novelty of method/framing, falsifiability of central claim, reproducibility signal (code + weights + data), and cross-discipline applicability.
- Pick the highest scoring. Tie-break: sharper falsifiable claim.
Brief format
[Paper title]
Authors: A, B, C (Lab)
arXiv: 2505.xxxxx
Central claim: [one sentence, plain English]
Why it's worth an hour:
- [method shift, not benchmark bump, they replace X with Y]
- [claim is falsifiable: ablation in §4 isolates X vs not-X cleanly]
- [code + weights released, reproducible at home]
Where it might be wrong:
- [training distribution is narrow, open question whether the effect transfers]
- [comparison baseline is older than expected]
Read order:
1. §3 (method), 8 min
2. §4 (ablations), 12 min
3. §6 (limitations), 5 min
Optional: §5 (extended experiments)
Empty days
If 0 papers survive the filter:
No surviving picks today. 14 papers filtered out: 6 benchmark-chasing, 5 incremental scaling, 3 position papers.
Worth scrolling yourself: huggingface.co/papers
Honesty over manufactured picks.
Rules
- One pick, not three. Three picks is a digest, and digests become wallpaper.
- "Where it might be wrong" is mandatory.
- Read order time-budgeted. Save the reader from skimming the whole PDF.
- Cite actual sections so the reader can verify the brief.
