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> Mostly you do research by being interested in something. If you need someone to tell you what to be interested in, a PhD may not be for you. Maybe I'm misint
by rifung 9y ago
> Mostly you do research by being interested in something. If you need someone to tell you what to be interested in, a PhD may not be for you.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting but this comment seems a bit condescending.
The thing is, it's not really research unless it's something new, and you can't know if something is new unless you know what already exists.
> All disciplines have journals, and many are either public access or available on sci-hub. If all else fails you can get a limited JSTOR subscription for only a moderately outrageous sum.
Sure you can have access to journals but how do you even know what you should search for? I suppose this is sufficient if what you want to do research in is something that is currently mainstream?
- UncleEntity 9y ago> Sure you can have access to journals but how do you even know what you should search for? I suppose this is sufficient if what you want to do research in is something that is currently mainstream? I "research" stuff all the time, do a google search for some term and find an interesting paper then go through the references that seem interesting. Works better than you'd imagine, I was looking up CESK machines and down through the rabbit hole I eventually found the original paper with the non-obvious name of The Calculi of λ-v-CS Conversion: A Syntactic Theory of Control and State in Imperative Higher-Order Programming Languages. Honestly, those math-heavy CS papers tend to make my head hurt though. Don't think there's a whole lot of people who would claim lambda calculus is mainstream but I can spend hours upon hours finding stuff to read about and most of (or all) the papers are easily downloaded off the author's website.