A personal collection of resources related to scientific practices, methodologies, and general advice. If there are typos or credit has not been given correctly please open an issue or contact me at oliviaprior@vhio.net.
- You and Your Research by Richard Hamming. An annoted version of the talk by Gwern, which includes questions to Hamming right after the talk can be found here. Also this reflection, by Aysajan.
- The Art of Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
- On Our Duties As Scientists by Oded Goldreich. More of his writings here
- A Reaction From a Multitude by Donella H. Meadows
- On Modeling by Novikov, Kiselev and Kespersen.
- How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem by Uri Alon
- Terence Tao's Career Advice Links, my favourites are Enjoy Your Work and Learn and Relearn Your Field
- Principles of Effective Research by Michael Nielsen
- Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Geoffrey Hinton's 2021 Commencement Talk Mumbai by Geoffrey Hinton
- The Feynman Learning Technique by Richard Feynman
- All I Really Need To Know by David P. Stern
- Tips for Probabilistic Software by Jason Liu
- The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research by Martin A. Schwartz
- Advice from the Nobel Laureates for a Life in Science by Neysan Donnelly
- The elements of scientific style - Works in Progress by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
- Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught by Gian-Carlo Rota
- Peer Rejection in Science - Nintil by José Luís Ricón
- On Impactful AI Research by Omar Khattab
- It Takes Two To Think by Itai Yanai & Martin J. Lercher
- Tough Learning by Michael Nielsen
- How to Read an Econometrics Paper by Frank DiTraglia
- Advice for Early PhD Students by Andrew Drozdov
- Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker
- A Survival Guide to a PhD by Andrej Karpathy
- 10 rules for students and teachers by John Cage
- Grad School Survival Guide by Casey Handmer
- Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student by Manuel Blum
- An Insider's Guide to Asking the Right Questions During Your PhD by Rishi Kulkarni