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# Literature Study Tips

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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 
    - ![](https://i.imgur.com/mSQylxx.png)
    - 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

