I haven’t read this post yet but am a fan of this sort of work. I also like Neel Nanda’s youtube videos where he records himself reading a paper. For me, the video recording format is even better because I can see what you do in real time and IMO you have much less “observation disrupting the very process you are trying to observer”.
Another skill that I’m interested in is how senior researchers skim papers. I’d be more interested in seeing how you/neel skim a paper in 5 minutes or how you quickly skim the literature on a particular topic rather than a deep dive into you spending hours on a single paper. This is because I more often have to do the former; very rarely do I want to do a deep dive into a paper.
I think video recordings of researchers skimming papers should be pretty cheap for researchers to do, especially if they just turn on screen recording for a paper they were already planning on skimming.
Another skill that I’m interested in is how senior researchers skim papers. I’d be more interested in seeing how you/neel skim a paper in 5 minutes or how you quickly skim the literature on a particular topic rather than a deep dive into you spending hours on a single paper. This is because I more often have to do the former; very rarely do I want to do a deep dive into a paper.
I intended for this to be a skim of a paper! The problem was the massive time multiplier as I tried to write my thoughts down.
I haven’t read this post yet but am a fan of this sort of work. I also like Neel Nanda’s youtube videos where he records himself reading a paper. For me, the video recording format is even better because I can see what you do in real time and IMO you have much less “observation disrupting the very process you are trying to observer”.
Another skill that I’m interested in is how senior researchers skim papers. I’d be more interested in seeing how you/neel skim a paper in 5 minutes or how you quickly skim the literature on a particular topic rather than a deep dive into you spending hours on a single paper. This is because I more often have to do the former; very rarely do I want to do a deep dive into a paper.
I think video recordings of researchers skimming papers should be pretty cheap for researchers to do, especially if they just turn on screen recording for a paper they were already planning on skimming.
I intended for this to be a skim of a paper! The problem was the massive time multiplier as I tried to write my thoughts down.