ScholarScout 1.5.3 adds pipeline minigame, review mode
ScholarScout's latest update introduces an SSE-driven pixel art minigame to mask 3-minute research generation pipelines. The release also ships a significant review mode using k-means clustering on embeddings for cross-cutting literature synthesis.
Gamifying long-running AI generation pipelines is a brilliant UX hack to reduce perceived latency.
- –The 32x32 pixel art minigame uses real `paper_found` SSE events to spawn obstacles, turning backend activity into a transparent progress bar
- –The new review mode upgrades from basic retrieval to semantic clustering (k-means with Jaccard fallback), allowing for per-cluster literature synthesis
- –Caching now tracks a `_used_count` per paper to prioritize fresh sources and automatically widens date ranges when exhausted
- –Moving all thresholds to a configuration file signals the project is maturing from a personal script into a reusable local framework
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2026-05-26
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