Reading Research papers

Very insightful, practical and detailed. Its all about focus, repetitive efforts and passion to learn. Amazing lecture.

From Siraj Session - Link

Goal Oriented Reading Strategy

Phase I

• Read title, Abstract 
• Use as Overview
• Skim through sections / sub sections
• No math in Pass I
• Correlate to known learning's
• Related Papers

Phase II

• Understand Mathematics
• Get Concept of Maths Formula
• Evaluate reports, repeatable results
• Download code repository
• Replicate results
• Additional resources on web to summarize texts
• Output - Notes, Helper Images

Phase III

• Maths
• Every detail of Math
• Break down equations
• Wikipedia references
• Replicate paper programmatically using equations / settings

Key is 'Never Give Up', 'Turn your frustrations into Fuel', 'Ask for Help'

How to Write a Research Paper

From Siraj Session - Link

• Remind to Stay Positive and Belief
• Start with Questions to arrive at Topic
• Broad / Specific
• Find answers for those questions
• Well articulated and laser focussed on solution for problem
• Collect data on topic
• Remember to search through variey of sources, critical in assessment
• Start Learning from Sources
• Make Generalizations
• Find common ideas across projects
• Synthesis of Data
• Use it as Thesis
• Defend belief based on series of compelling experiments
• Ask for validation
• Get Super basic functional baseline
• Write outline from common subsections between different papers
• Generalized form of different papers
• Sections for your projects
• Document research process and results
• 5 to 10 Pages ideal length
• Never Plagarize
• Omnigraph, inscape

Happy Learning, Reading and Writing!!!