Reading

Newbie phase (or unfamiliar research area)

• Newbies: courses $\approx$ tutorials $>$ textbooks $>$ talks $>$ papers
• You will learn a lot!

Professional phase (your topic's related research)

• Virtually re-implement every paper (to make sure you digest them well)
  • be constructive, not destructive on every paper
• Make a reading list (now)!
  • get all top-conference papers in 10-15 years
  • build a reference graph
  • (a very hard time; but very useful)

Writing

How to write?

• Lots of tedious details
  • “Least surprise principle” - your reader is a deep neural network; make their predictions in line
  • Find a manual, e.g., CMOS
• Give a lot of time to your advisor for revising your manuscript
  • $>3$ months

Hacking

Write good code

• Readable - make specifications explicit
• Verifiable - make correctness explicit

Life is short, use

• Modern IDE and command line tools
• Git
• Python
• Domain-specific languages
  • example: I use Jinja2 for spamming: review-form.md
  • spam review-form.md assignment.csv

Course Summary

Course contents (class meetings and assignments)

• Same as the last year
• But everything goes in English
  • (seems okay)

Better proceeding and Online Judge

• Not perfect (will improved next year...)
  • manually handled .zip, .pdf, and hash-ID for A5 😂

Upcoming Next Year...

Larger paper pool

• ~10 must-reads and ~100 awesome papers

Take Away Messages

Three easy pieces

• Reading
• Writing
• Hacking

Set a higher bar!

• Seek changes
• Seek challenges