advice

This page is intended to be a growing collection of pieces of advice.

• How to Pick Your Grad School by Tim Dettmers

• Student Perspectives on Applying to NLP PhD Programs by Akari Asai and many others

• Stuart Shieber’s post on three styles of writing a paper
• Chris Dyer’s writing advice
• Philip Resnik’s writing advice
• Jordan Boyd-Graber has a bunch of useful style advice, including this gem on writing equations. Some of the style preferences are idiomatic.
• A guide to typesetting math in NLP papers by Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, and Noah Smith.
• Nathan Schneider’s LaTex style guide
• Jason Eisner has a bunch of useful advice
• How to write rebuttals by Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, and Stefan Lee.
• The CVPR tutorial on how to write a good review has useful advice on writing papers, reviews, and rebuttals.
• ICLR’s reviewer guide proposes a useful structure for a review, as well as links to other reviewing resources.

• Tips for PhD research work by Sebastian Ruder, including pointers to other advice.

• A guide on informal communication in an all-remote environment by GitLab

• Advice on remote instructions from Harvard

• Sam Gershman’s advice for young investigators

• Bertran Russell’s ten commandments