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Optional Extensions(Part 2)
- Pomodoro Sessions: If you feel intimidated by the paper and lack motivation, you can use the pomodoro technique. Start a 25 minute timer without any expectations and read the paper.
- Feynman technique: Choose a concept you want to learn; pretend you're teaching it to someone with no prior knowledge; review your explanation and identify weak points; simplify your explanation.
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The 5 C's
At the end of the first pass you should be able to answer:
- Category: What is the type of paper? Literature? Prototype?
- Context: What other papers are related to this one? Can you connect it to something else?
- Correctness:
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The second pass: Grasp the content
Duration: Can take up to 1 hour.
Activity:
- Read the complete paper.
- Ignore details such as proofs or equations.
- Take some notes at the margins of the paper and write down the key points.
- Look at any type of illustration in the paper like tables and fig...
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Optional extensions(Part 1)
Use this only if you have to read the entire paper.
- Make little boxes: Surround equations, figures and tables with boxes. Do this during the first-pass. It will help to quantify how many details in terms of math equations you can expect.
- Highlighters
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The First Pass: The bird’s-eye view
Goal: To get the big picture of the paper
Duration: Less than 10 minutes.
Activity: Glancing over the following sections of paper:
- Abstract
- Title
- Introduction
- Conclusion
Ignore the content of section and sub-sections.
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The Three Pass Approach
Srinivasan Keshav describes the three-pass approach which acts as a filtering system. It is an iterative and incremental way of reading a paper. It consists of:
- The First Pass: The bird's-eye view
- The second pass: Grasp the content
- The third pass: Virtually re-impleme...
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Doing A Literature Survey
Doing a literature survey is a bit different than reading a single paper.
- First pass: In the first pass you have to collect potentially useful papers. Find 3 to 5 recent papers. You can now continue with the usual first pass procedure. You can also skim through the references...
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The Third Pass: Virtually re-implement the paper
Duration: Can take up to 4-5 hours if you're a beginner(you should carefully consider if this step is worth your time).
Activity:
- Read the paper in its entirety and question every detail.
- Make the same assumptions as the authors and re-create the work from scratch. You ...
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