Alex Tamkin - Tips for New Researchers
Tips for Success as a New Researcher September 2022 This guide is a compilation of tips I wish I knew when I was starting out doing computer science research as an undergraduate student at Stanford. It's targeted towards high school / undergraduate / Master's students working with a research
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