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I'm going to push commit every single day. And write an article per week. Is there a easy way to stick the promise and not procrastinate?
Reading this article, Jennifer's, and the comments here have really inspired me. I think I am going to join you guys. Starting today, I am going to code for 8 hours every day for my full-time startup job. Hopefully, at the end, I will have a much better understanding of how much total time of how much of my life I am wasting working on other people's dreams when instead I could be reading research papers, building we…
I suggest you divide your year into quarters or thirds and select a theme for each. Spending three to four months studying papers from a certain subject would give you a better chance at understanding, I think.
Good luck, have fun.
And in turn, you have inspired me to do something similar. I read (to varying degrees of attentiveness) many, many papers per week, but I never write about them other than to take notes, write questions to the authors etc. For the next 52 weeks, I'm gonna try to write a layman's explanation (with some amount of appropriate background) about a paper every week. I suspect these will center around my work, but I also su…
As somebody who is about to start grad school, blogging about papers publicly sounds like an excellent idea. At the beginning of my Master's degree, I was quite careful about making notes about every paper I read, but as I gained more background and started focussing on doing on my own work, I'd read papers only enough to get what I needed out of them (fortunately I have a good enough memory that when I needed someth…
Eh, maybe. Publicly criticizing the work of others in an informal venue where you don't have the benefit of editing/peer review could potentially make you look foolish while also alienating potential future collaborators/colleagues/reviewers.
And what's the deliverable? That is, how do you measure whether or not you "understand" a paper? The 180 websites speak for themselves. How will we know you have succeeded?
I suggest that you be queried by an expert in each paper's field and given a numerical score 0-100!8-))
This is all lame, building websites, reading papers. These activities are good in their own stead but they don't help the world or achive something spectacular. Why do people want such quick returns. I give you 2 decades, win me a Noble prize.
> they don't help the world or achive something spectacular Sure they do. What if I become really good at summarizing papers for laymen? What if I then start a publishing house for good laymen explanations of science? What if this then leads to the abolishment of all those stupid "Caffeine will give you cancer lololol" articles your mum reads? Or maybe I'll just learn a lot and use it as an advantage somewhere else.…
I am striving for something similar with a club, the Academic Journal Club, at my university. I hope to move much of the discussion online so others can benefit from our learning. This is our forum http://ajcutk.com/forum/
I'm going to push commit every single day. And write an article per week. Is there a easy way to stick the promise and not procrastinate?
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I do not. While I would really like to be able to do that, the reality is that I just can't. I mean, I have a biologist friend who regularly clones bacteria and implements binary functions in their DNA. Not only do I not know how to hold a pipete, I just don't have the equipment to perform experiments like that. The goal is to get a functional understanding of as many different topics as possible. Enough to explain t…
At least for some of the Machine Learning and related papers (specially old ones), to reproduce the experiment should be relatively easy.