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For the most part, four things have done it for me: 1. Reading academic papers. 2. Being very hands-on; always implementing something, even it means trial and
by 19ylram49 7y ago
For the most part, four things have done it for me:
1. Reading academic papers.
2. Being very hands-on; always implementing something, even it means trial and error. (Re #1: A lot of times, I end up implementing ideas from interesting papers that I’ve read.)
3. Doing my best to be around smart folks and learn from them (i.e., going to technical events, developing mentors, etc.).
4. Never giving up! This seems cliché to say, but forcing that mindset on myself has helped me tremendously for especially hard topics/domains (e.g., distributed systems). (Even if I have to reread a paper 10x before I fully understand it, I’m willing to do that.)
- throw7 7y agoHow does one find out about academic papers? Is there some source that lists: here are the academic papers this week?
- deepakkarki 7y agoYou can check out https://blog.acolyer.org/ https://blog.acolyer.org/ It's run by a guy called Adrian Colyer, he picks up a good research paper every weekday and summarises it on the blog. He's very regular and covers about 200 papers per year. Topics covered mainly revolve around data science (ML, AI, etc) and data engineering (DBMS, distributed systems, etc), and to a lesser extent general software engineering and systems stuff.