Posts tagged #research

An opinionated perspective on how to do important research that makes a difference (and sometimes win awards).

Discover Pepper the humanoid robot designed to interact with humans. Standing 120cm tall, Pepper can perceive his environment and speak 15 languages.

Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.

Several million people employ electronic mail for some significant portion of their professional communications. Yet in my experience few people have figured out how to use the net productively. A great deal of effort is going into technical means for finding information on the net, but hardly anybody has been helping newcomers figure out where the net fits in the larger picture of their own careers. These notes are a first attempt to fill that gap, building on the most successful practices I've observed in my twenty years on the net. I will focus on the use of electronic communication in research communities, but the underlying principles will be applicable to many other communities as well.

Discover the best public Google docs

A suprisingly thoughtful and detailed essay. I skimmed it. It's a bit of intellectual play because the question could be answered much more briefly. But the article does go deep and look at the question in many different interesting ways.

This handbook is for grad students, postdocs and PIs who do a lot of programming as part of their research. It will teach you, in a practical manner, how to organize your code so that it is easy to...

Great list of top publications

Adding depth sensors onto the machine allows it to “see” its environment

something between wikipedia and what.com

Free research on art history

Cool tool to lookup quotes

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

Fun list of papers, reports, and dissertations related to ruby from academia.

Cool web site about computer science papers

InterSystems perspectives on being a researcher and scientist

This site shows off research papers which include the code to run. Very nice!