Research

Points to Ponder

• Cargo Cult Science, by RICHARD P. FEYNMAN.

• The illustrated guide to a Ph.D., by Matthew Might.

• The Art of Research Paper Writing and the Research Iceberg Analogy, by Tadayoshi Kohno.

• In the era of human-level AI, what is the relevant and novel research then?

Mottos

• “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” – Richard Feynmann

• "Every morning in the early part of October 1843, on my coming down to breakfast, your brother William Edwin and yourself used to ask me: "Well, Papa, can you multiply triples?" Whereto I was always obliged to reply, with a sad shake of the head, "No, I can only add and subtract them." – History of quaternions (Wikipedia)

• “Failure is a good option, if you are not failing you're not trying hard enough.” ― Elon Musk

• “Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.” ― Woody Guthrie

• “The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” ― Barry H. Gillespie

• “苟日新，日日新，又日新” ― 《礼记·大学》

• “庖丁解牛；惟手熟尔” ― 《庄子・养生主》；《卖油翁》

• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde