Resources - Shivvrat Arya

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Academic Writing

Papers
- Alberto Rodriguez: Good Practices for Good Writing (from the R:SS 2020 workshop Citizens of Robotics Research)
- Amy Tabb: Basic Submission Checklist
- Bill Freeman: How to Write a Good Research Paper [Slides] (from the CVPR 2018 workshop Good Citizen of CVPR)
- Brett Mensh and Konrad Kording: Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers
- Cormac McCarthy: Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper
- Devi Parikh: Planning Paper Writing
- George Whitesides: How to Write a Paper to Communicate Your Research
- Jitendra Malik: How to Write a Good Paper [Slides] (from the CVPR 2018 workshop Good Citizen of CVPR)
- Kate Saenko: How to Write the Introduction for a Research Paper
- Kevin P. Lee: A Guide to Writing Mathematics
- Larry McEnerney: Leadership Lab: The Craft of Writing Effectively
- Marcel Hofeditz: 5 Academic Writing Tips for Non-Native Speakers
- Pratap Tokekar: Thoughts on Writing a Good (Robotics) Paper
- Simon Peyton Jones: How to Write a Great Research Paper (Talk)
- Stefanie Tellex: Writing a Technical Paper
- Virginia Gewin: How to Write a First-Class Paper
- Zachary Lipton: Heuristics for Scientific Writing (a Machine Learning Perspective)
Abstracts
- Chittaranjan Andrade: How to Write a Good Abstract for a Scientific Paper or Conference Presentation
- Juliana Carvalho Ferreira and Cecilia Maria Patino: Twelve Tips to Write an Abstract for a Conference: Advice for Young and Experienced Investigators
- Nadine J. Kabengi: Tips for Writing an Abstract
- Nature 435, 114-118 (2005): How to Construct a Nature Summary Paragraph
- Philip Koopman: How to Write an Abstract
Reviews
- Amy Tabb: My Reviewing Style, or How to Review Technical Papers When You've Not Been Taught How
- Devi Parikh, Dhruv Battra, and Stefan Lee: How We Write Rebuttals
- EMNLP Committee Blog: Advice on Reviewing for EMNLP
- Seth Hutchinson: Surviving the Review Process
Research Statements
- Carnegie Mellon University, Global Communication Center: Writing A Research Statement
Research Proposals
- George A. Hazelrigg: Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal
- George A. Hazelrigg: Honing Your Proposal Writing Skills
- Jeff Trinkle: Some Keys to Preparing a Competitive Proposal From My Observations
Posters
- Amy Tabb: Poster Session Strategies
LaTeX
- Devi Parikh: Shortening Papers to Fit Page Limits
- Dustin Tran: Better LaTeX Defaults
- Jia-Bin Huang: Paper Writing with LaTeX
- Markus Püschel: Small Guide to Making Nice Tables
- Noah Snavely: A Short LaTeX Style Guide
Citing
- Citation Machine Smart Writing

Research

General Advice
- Academia Stack Exchange: Posts Tagged With [research-process]
- Chris Olah: Research Taste Exercises
- Colin Chandler: What Is the Meaning of Impact in Relation to Research and Why Does It Matter? A View From Inside Academia
- Cordelia Schmid: How to Do Good Research & Evaluation [Slides] (from the CVPR 2018 workshop Good Citizen of CVPR)
- David Epstein: Why Specializing Early Doesn't Always Mean Career Success
- Danica Kragic: Building an Academic Career [Slides] (from the R:SS 2020 workshop Citizens of Robotics Research)
- David Patterson: How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia
- Donald Knuth: My Advice to Young People and On work habits, problem solving, and happiness (by Shuvomoy Das Gupta)
- Eugene Vinitsky: Personal Rules of Productive Research
- H.T. Kung: Useful Thoughts about Research
- Jeff Trinkle: Identifying a Fundable Research Project
- Jia-Bin Huang: How to Come Up With Research Ideas?
- Jim Kurose: 15 Pieces of Advice I Wish My PhD Advisor Had Given Me
- John Schulman: An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
- Mark Dredze and Hanna M. Wallach: How to Be a Successful PhD Student
- Michael Nielsen: Principles of Effective Research
- Mor Naaman: A Syllabus for PhD Students Working in My Group
- Nick Feamster and Alex Gray: How to Do Great Research
- Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau: Graduate School: Keys To Success
- Richard Hamming: You and Your Research [Transcript]
- Rosanne Liu: AI Research: The Unreasonably Narrow Path and How not to be Miserable
- Rowan McAllister: Workshop Organization Guide
- Siddhartha Srinivasa: What Should I Work On? (from the R:SS 2020 workshop Citizens of Robotics Research)
- Vincent Vanhoucke: So You Want to Be a Research Scientist
- Vladlen Koltun: Doing (Good) Research [Slides] (from the CVPR 2018 workshop Good Citizen of CVPR)
Designing Experiments
- Anca Dragan: Intro to Experiment Design [Slides] (from the R:SS 2020 workshop Citizens of Robotics Research)
- Andy Cockburn, Pierre Dragicevic, Lonni Besançon, and Carl Gutwin: Threats of a Replication Crisis in Empirical Computer Science (Talk)
- Peter Norvig: Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation
Making Videos
- Stefanie Tellex, Eric Rosen, and George Konidaris: Best Practices for Robot Videos
- Travis Deyle: Being Honest in Robot Videos: Motion Capture, Speedup Rates, and Teleoperation
Reading Papers
- Alec Jacobson and Colin Raffel: Role-Playing Paper-Reading Seminars
- Andrew Ng: Career Advice / Reading Research Papers
- David Ha: How Do You Skim a Research Paper?
- Eric Jang: How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
- Jason Eisner: How to Read a Technical Paper
- Srinivasan Keshav: How to Read a Paper
- Yannic Kilcher: How I Read a Paper: Facebook's DETR
Giving Talks
- Kayvon Fatahalian: Tips for Giving Clear Talks
- Kristen Grauman: Tips for Preparing a Clear Talk [Slides] (from the CVPR 2018 workshop Good Citizen of CVPR)
- Patrick Winston: How To Speak (from his MIT course: https://ocw.mit.edu/how_to_speak)
- Wolfram Burgard: How to Give a Presentation (from the R:SS 2020 workshop Citizens of Robotics Research)
Thinking Patterns and Unsolicited Advice
- Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
- Gabriel Weinberg: Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
- George Mack: 15 of the most useful razors and rules I've found
- Jesse Richardson, Andy Smith, Som Meaden, and Flip Creative: Thou Shalt not Commit Logical Fallacies
- Kevin Kelly: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice, 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- Nabeel Qureshi: How to Understand Things
- Rhiannon Beaubien and Shane Parrish: Mental Models (~100 Models Explained)
- Wikipedia: List of Cognitive Biases
- Wikipedia: List of Fallacies
- Wikipedia: Five whys
Communication
- Basecamp: How We Communicate
- Basecamp: Group Chat Problems
- Paul Graham: Maker's Schedule, Manager's schedule
Useful Website
- Paper Digest: Artificial Intelligence summarizes academic articles for you [//][//]: # (- Leaving Academia)

(Please use any recommended software or repositories at your own risk.)

Citation Manager

Zotero: Citation Manager

Note-Taking on iPad and MacBook:

Obsidian: Note-Taking - A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
Goodnotes Note down, shape, & share your ideas with the world's best digital paper
Notability Note-Taking - Handwritten
MarginNote A brand new e-reader to better study and digest your books - Good for reading papers and taking notes

Diagrams:

draw.io: Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software Desktop Installer

Repositories

Building Academic Webpage

Templates based on Jekyll
- academic-website-template (I am using this as a template)
- Minimal Mistakes Jekyll theme
- academicpages.github.io
- academic
- al-folio
Hosting
- GitHub Pages

Python

Faster Python
- Jit Compilers
  - TorchDynamo is a Python-level JIT compiler designed to make unmodified PyTorch programs faster
  - Numba is an open source JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy code into fast machine code.
- Cython is an optimising static compiler for both the Python programming language
Logging
- loguru Python logging made (stupidly) simple