tags : education, Computation and Computer Theory, Math

How to read paper?

3 approaches

Solution Finding

Immediate solutions for problems at hand, similar to reading SO/reference books.

Discovery

This is basically going down the rabbithole idea but which a aim to improve/optimize find better alternatives to your original idea.

Curiosity

Just reading things out of curiosity! It can surprise you how useful these random ideas can be :)

Other tips

  • Avoid reading new papers at all. Focus on the classics, and let time filter out papers that are worth reading.
  • Paper writers are mostly one of these three: Academics, Engineers, Industrial Labs
  • Identify the methods used. They are the primary metric when analyzing results.
  • Long term learning is a good way to get time for reading research papers.