[D] Is anyone else absolutely besieged by papers and always on the verge of getting scooped?

I'm a 1st year PhD student working on a hot area in ML (3 guesses as to what lol) and the past year has been absolutely brutal for me on a personal level. Every single weekday, I check the daily arxiv digest that hits my inbox, and there's consistently always 3-5 new papers that are relevant to my topic, more especially recently given that everyone is now releasing their Neurips submissions.

No paper has directly scooped what I've been working …

always on arxiv check daily every hot machinelearning papers phd the verge