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Nice story about perseverance. But I do not know how helpful this is to young researchers. My advice for young researchers is read more articles - like at lea
by pfisherman 2y ago
Nice story about perseverance. But I do not know how helpful this is to young researchers.
My advice for young researchers is read more articles - like at least a solid month of reading and journaling full time (40 hrs per week) before you even start to think about what you want to start off with by replicating.
The other related mistake I see young researchers make a lot is not leveraging pre-existing work / results and wasting weeks or months reinventing the wheel.
- ash-ali 2y agoI love this advice. But, I find it extremely difficult to just read and jot things down without having any applied work in parallel. Your idea may be the ideal case :]
- fooker 2y agoThis is very useful for laboratory science but not too much for computer science research for example. You can typically make nice prototypes in a weekend and try out ideas. If one or two of these work out, you get a paper after a bit more work polishing it. Of course you have to be competent and able to build prototypes, which is something I have seen about half of the students lack. In that case, you can typically also get a PhD by basically doing minor tweaks on existing tools and putting a lot more effort in benchmarking and story telling. Both are useful to science.