# Research Skills

## Generally Speaking

* [How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pdf), by David A. Patterson
* [You and Your Research](https://blog.samaltman.com/you-and-your-research), by Richard Hamming
* [Principles of Effective Research](https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/principles-of-effective-research/), by Michael A. Nielsen
* [An Opinionated Guide to ML Research](http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html), by John Schulman
* [Practicing AI research](https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/practicing-ai-research), by Jason Wei

## Before you start your Ph.D.

* [Ph.D. Advice: Useful Thoughts about Research](https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/htk/phdadvice/), by H.T. Kung
* The Ph.D. Grind, by Philip J. Guo
* [A Survival Guide to a PhD](http://karpathy.github.io/2016/09/07/phd/), by Andrej Karpathy
* [A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science](https://www.usu.edu/biomath/files/peter-feibelm.pdf), by Peter J. Feibelman

## Paper Reading

* [How to Read a Paper](http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/files/p83-keshavA.pdf), by Srinivasan Keshav \[[Personal Note](/reading-notes/journal/ccr/2007/how-to-read-a-paper.md)]
* [Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology](https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/netbib/efficientReading.pdf), by Michael J. Hanson and Dylan J. McNamee

## Writing a Paper

* [How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper](https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/dsl97/good_paper.html), by Roy Levin and David D. Redell (9th SOSP Program Committee Co-chairmen)
* [The Science of Scientific Writing](https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/gopen_and_swan_science_of_scientific_writing.pdf), by George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan
* [How to write a technical paper or a research paper](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/write-technical-paper.html), by Michael Ernst
* [Writing Perfect Papers](https://iqua.ece.toronto.edu/papers/writing-perfect-papers-2021.pdf), by Baochun Li
* [10 tips on how we write papers](https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385\(22\)00543-4), by Edward H. Sargent

## Presentation

* [The Art of Presentation](https://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~jia/research/the-art-of-presentation.pdf), by Baochun Li

## Faculty Job Search

* [Philip’s notes on the tenure-track assistant professor job search](https://xb00dx.github.io/files/guo-faculty-job-search.pdf), by Philip J. Guo

## Student Mentorship

* [Your students are your legacy](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1467247.1467259), by David A. Patterson \[[中文译本](https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-414166-302397.html)]

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## AI Research

* [The Bitter Lesson](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html), by Richard S. Sutton

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## 读博心路历程

* [博士这五年](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/25099638), by 李沐
* [机器学习科研的十年](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/74249758), by 陈天奇
* [博士五年总结系列](https://yuandong-tian.com/five_year_summary_of_PhD.pdf), by 田渊栋


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