General Research Resources¶
This collection contains websites, resources and tools that I use to support, automate and generally improve my research and literature reviews.
Am I missing something? Feel free to open an issue and let me know :)
Mathpix Snip 
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Link: https://mathpix.com
Abstract:
Mathpix Snip digitizes handwritten or printed text, and copies outputs to the clipboard that can be pasted into LaTeX editors like Overleaf, Markdown editors like Typora, Microsoft Word, and more.
Relevance: - Mathpix is a real time-saver if you spend a lot of time typing equations in LaTeX.
Anki - powerful, intelligent flashcards ¶
Link: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Abstract:
- Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
- Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless.
Relevance: - We lose what we don't use. Thanks to you, evolution... - I use Anki whenever I want to remember facts and knowledge. In fact, what you find at https://pwenker.com/ai_and_health/knowledge also lives in an Anki collection and was exported from there. - Two things you should look up, if you don't know them: 1. Spaced Repetition 2. Retrieval Practice. You'll thank me later (if you don't forget).
Zotero | Your personal research assistant ¶
Link: https://www.zotero.org/
Abstract:
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Relevance: - Zotero is a corner stone of my research! - I use it to organize my research - To give you a very specific example, let's look at what you are reading right now! I opened the Zotero webpage in my browser and used a Zotero browser extension, to import this snapshot with only one click. Zotero already fills in some information automatically, like the link to the webpage, the title, and often times a fitting abstract. I only added the very sentences you are reading now into the Abstract field of the entry. Then I used some Python scripting to export the whole collection (including this very entry) to the repository you are currently looking at.
Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers ¶
Link: https://www.connectedpapers.com/
Abstract:
A unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work.
Relevance: - If you start researching a new field, it's often a struggle to find good introductory research papers. Here, Connected Papers comes to your rescue! - I like to start a literature research by just putting the name of the field, e.g. Deep Reinforcement Learning into the Connected Papers search field and let it build a graph. - It immediately shows you (at least some of) the most relevant and foundational research papers (node size) and useful connections between them (edges).
ShortScience.org - Making Science Accessible! ¶
Link: https://www.shortscience.org/
Abstract:
- ShortScience.org is a platform for post-publication discussion aiming to improve accessibility and reproducibility of research ideas.
- The website has 1547 public summaries, mostly in machine learning, written by the community and organized by paper, conference, and year.
- Reading summaries of papers is useful to obtain the perspective and insight of another reader, why they liked or disliked it, and their attempt to demystify complicated sections.
- Also, writing summaries is a good exercise to understand the content of a paper because you are forced to challenge your assumptions when explaining it.
- Finally, you can keep up to date with the flood of research by reading the latest summaries on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
Relevance: - This is best explained by: https://www.shortscience.org/about
Papers with Code - The latest in Machine Learning ¶
Link: https://paperswithcode.com/
Abstract:
Papers With Code highlights trending Machine Learning research and the code to implement it.
Relevance: - What's is the worth of a research paper without an actual implementation? Often times: nothing. - Papers With Code has the laudable mission to create a free and open resource with Machine Learning papers, code and evaluation tables. - It's an amazing starting place to find datasets, benchmarks and research papers with high-quality implementations. - I also find it particularly useful to get an overview about which subcategories a specific field has. For example, https://paperswithcode.com/area/medical helped me to choose an initial structure for this research collection.
Google Scholar ¶
Link: https://scholar.google.com/
Abstract:
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Relevance: - I simply use Google Scholar to find research papers. - Additionally, it allows you, for a given research paper, to find other papers that cite it, or that are deemed to be similar.