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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 https://ar5iv.labs.arx
by dginev 1y ago
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 https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/feeling_lucky
- jegp 1y agoThanks for this! If I knew this existed, I wouldn't have built the page myself.
- jegp 1y agoIs the code for the "feeling lucky" selection mechanism open? Or, do you know how they select papers at random?
- dginev 1y agoSure, the repository is open source (linked from the front page). The selection did not get much thought at all, just a Rust rand shuffle over all ids performed at first page visit and then cached: https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/seq/trait.SliceRandom.html#tymethod.shuffle https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/seq/trait.SliceRandom.html#... I had all IDs already computed for the previous/next article navigation feature, so it seemed fun to reuse them.