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How to Understand ML Papers Quickly

Everyone recommends reading research papers, but few talk about how to do it effectively. Like any skill, it gets easier with time, but starting out can be daunting. It helps to know that the struggles you face are common, and that there are ways to overcome them.
I wrote about my approach to reading technically dense p... See more

Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack a list of papers to read, so as to improve John's understanding of AI. That is a lot to read. If you want to quickly grasp what those papers are about, in this thread I share maps on over 20 of them ๐
Fwiw - if you're new to reading AI papers ๐
The tipping point for me was when I spent 4 weeks reading one paper per week. (two or three of them were @RichardSocher's back in ~2012)
For each paper, I read each sentence and wrote 1-2 paragraphs about it, summarising its citations, why Richard... See more
โฟป Andrew Traskx.com