Ask HN: Whitepaper v Academic Paper: What’s the best way to share breakthroughs?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Whitepaper v Academic Paper: What’s the best way to share breakthroughs? Hey HN, I’m a graduate student and I’ve been working on an interesting side project: building brain inspired modular neural nets. I’m not doing this under the purview of a professor, but there are some interesting preliminary results. Generally, is it the sort of thing I should just share as a White paper or try to formally publish. Or should I just share a blog post about it