# Literature Study Tips

###### tags: `Tips and Tricks`

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# Reading Research Papers

## Steps to follow

- Compile a list of papers
- Papers on arxiv, conferences
- Journals
- Medium posts
- Articles
- GitHub posts
- Skipping around the list
- Make a table, rows are lists of papers and colums are understood percentage. (10-100%)
- First read a 10%, try to understand, if not go to references and read those till 100%, And so on
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- Around 5-20 papers, you'll have some basic idea for implementing it
- Around 50-100 papers, you'll have a good understanding to do in depth research
- Take multiple passes through the papers
- Title/abstract/figures (only figures can summerize the entire paper)
- Intro + Conclusions + Figures + Skim rest (skip/skim related work if not familiar)
- Read but skip/skim the math
- Whole thing but skip parts that don't make sense
- Ask yourself these questions
- What did the authors try to acomplish ?
- What were the key elements of the approach
- *What can you use yourself ?
- *What other references do you want to follow ?
- 10-20min per page

## Sources of Papers

* Twitter
* Subreddits
* ICRA/RSS/IROS
* Friends + Colleages
* Arixv sanity

## Code and Math Part
### Math
- Read few passes
- Rederive from scratch on blank paper,
- if can do this, then you can learn to derive your own novel algorithms
- example : people sit in art mueseum and they copy the work of masters
### Code
- Run the open-source code
- Reimplement from scratch

## Longer term advice

* Keep Learning steadily rather than doing just once a year.
* use tablet/laptop for reading
* One Great projects >>> Many Lame projects

## Saturday Morning Problem

* Read a paper
* Work on research
* Open-source
* Or TV :smile: (maintain work-life balance)

No short term rewards for doing this, keep doing this consistently for a year or something