• Contents

Research Styles

• Incentivizing Empirical Science in Machine Learning: Problems and Proposals, Preetum Nakkiran & Mikhail Belkin.

Research Methodology

Baselines and Oracles

• Baselines and Oracles

Productive Research

• Personal Rules of Productive Research

Advice from Others

Demis Hassabis

From a podcast where he talked with Lex Fridman.

• Find your real passion
• Find connections between things
• Know yourself

How about a perfect productive day of Demis Hassabis (a day in life)

• 20 years ago
  • Whole day of research, reading research paper, doing experiments or programming, reading science fiction books
• Now (structured way)
  • [first day of work] 11 am get into work in the office: arrange meetings (collaborations, managements)
  • [second day of work] from 10 pm towards 4, 5 in the morning: reading/writing research papers. {Night Time Phase}
    • Have a lots of notes: electronic and stack of paper notes.
    • Love working around 2-4 am in the morning: creative thinking, like reading science history books (how great scientists do science)
  • Context switching!

Lecturer experience at Berkeley

• My experience as a Unit-18 Berkeley Lecturer, May 22 2022.

The author decide to leave Berkeley and go to the industry. To quote a few words here: