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by mathetic
3144 days ago
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I'm a grad student and I spend a lot of my time reading CS papers. It is amazing that you want to start reading CS papers and I highly encourage it. However, if you don't have a CS degree I think papers might be remarkably off-putting (they usually are even to early grad students). I suggest you start with textbooks instead. Papers suffer from not being rewritten once they are published, hence from a pedagogical point of view, they are usually not explained as well as they could be after digesting them for many many years. Another problem is that most papers contain multiple ideas some of which rise and shine and the other ones die (often for good reasons). It is not easy to spot which is which without knowing about the wider context, which you naturally lack as a beginner. If you insist on reading papers, however, at least don't read them in linear order. A good section order is abstract -> intro -> conclusion -> related work (because it uses comparisons which help) -> background -> evaluation (if exists!) -> technical chapters (those are usually best read in linear order). If there are proofs read them only if you must! If the proof is presented in the paper that is a good indication that it contains multiple subtle points which are tough to understand even if you are an experienced researcher. |
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There’s so much noise online now about these topics that it’s very hard to figure out where to focus and which resources are worth investing time into.
Thanks in advance!