Research Taste Exercises [rough note] -- colah's blog
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Five exercises for building research taste (and three failure modes).
Research Taste Exercises [rough note] -- colah's blog Research Taste Exercises Posted on Jan 9, 2021 This article is a rough note. Writing rough notes allows me share more content, since polishing takes lots of time. While I hope it's useful, it's likely lower quality and less carefully considered than my usual articles. It's very possible I wouldn't stand by this content if I thought about it more. See also twitter thread version . One of the most important aspects of growing as a researcher is developing research taste -- roughly, the ability to chose good problems to work on. But it can be
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