PaperGrep – Find academic papers referenced in production code

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Around 9 years ago I wrote a blog-post looking for scientific papers in OpenJDK [0]. Back then I simply greped the source code searching for PDFs and didn't even know what a DOI is.Since then, whenever I entered a new domain or worked in a new codebase, I wished I could see the papers referenced in the source. For example, PyTorch has great papers [1] describing implementation details of compilation and parallelization techniques. Reading those papers + the code that implements them is incredibly helpful for understanding both the domain and the codebase.I finally decided to build PaperGrep as a simple tool for this. The biggest challenge wasn't parsing citations (though that's hard) - it's

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