I found a good new use for Claude Code: a semi-systematic review of papers that cite Flux and Zygote. There are nearly two thousand, and not all of them use Flux directly (some citing as related work or inspiration). Claude will gladly hustle its way to the full text, digging deep to find arXiv preprints or copies on personal websites, and blithely clicking through “I am not a robot” captchas. It’s reasonably reliable at checking whether papers use those tools, and I’ve got it leaving a decent audit trail in case of errors.
I’m hoping for Raven to extend some of the ideas from Flux, and am putting together a few of these use cases partly in mind for a possible grant proposal. So here’s a rough draft of the fun ones I have so far. I was surprised by the breadth and depth of them, and there are many great examples of the use of hybrid modelling – combining handwritten systems and known physics with smaller black boxes to fill in the blanks.