Working Notes: a commonplace notebook for recording & exploring ideas.
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How To Read a Paper
Link: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~pwlfong/CS499/reading-paper.pdf
Steps:
- Comprehension (/what is the plot?/)
- What is the research problem / motivation?
- What are the claimed contributions?
- What is the evidence supporting the claims?
- What are the conclusions?
- Evaluation
- Is the research problem significant?
- Are the contributions significant?
- Are the claims valid?
- Synthesis
- Look at it as an opportunity for new ideas
- Alternative approaches, better approaches
- Arguing against the paper
- Any new open problems?
- Can we do better?
- Review
- Short essay reporting what you learned
- Summary / Evaluation / Synthesis
Cross references how to read a book.