Where to go next
How to keep learning after the year — following new research without drowning, reproducing papers, choosing a direction, and starting to contribute — with pointers into the questions nobody has answered yet.
25 min
After this lesson you can
- Set up a sustainable research-reading routine from arXiv feeds and conference proceedings
- Survey an unfamiliar area with Keshav's literature-survey method
- Choose a first paper to reproduce, and know how to go about it
- Distinguish idea-driven from goal-driven research, and use that to pick a direction
- Find a first way to contribute, from reproductions to open-source code to clear explanations
In this lesson
- Keeping up without drowning
- Reproduce before you innovate
- Choosing a direction
- Where the open questions are
- Ways to contribute
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