how to read research papers, in 5 minutes. | writing

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My top learnings aggregated into a short guide.

TLDR: There are way too many papers to afford reading slowly (most are incremental or poorly written), and you need to see lots before the patterns emerge. Unless you’re brand new to a field [ 1 ] , I recommend honing the skill of moving quickly through many papers and only revisiting the good ones. Intended for readers of all backgrounds, from first paper to many. Distilled from my own and fellow researchers’ experience in the machine learning (ML) field, though these principles should apply broadly. From what I can tell, most people aren’t taught how to read research papers. Inside academia

how to read research papers, in 5 minutes. | writing

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