Navigating the Ph.D. Odyssey: A Resource Toolkit

General PhD Guide

• [blog post] A Survival Guide to a PhD, Andrej Karpathy ⭐
• [video] Machine Learning PhD Survival Guide 2021, Yannic Kilcher
• [blog post] Twenty things I wish I’d known when I started my PhD, Lucy A. Taylor
• [thread] Why you should not take advice from professors, Shimon Whiteson
• [blog post] Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?, Daniel Holden
• [video] Stanford CS230: Deep Learning | Autumn 2018 | Lecture 8 - Career Advice / Reading Research Papers, Andrew Ng ⭐
• [blog post] So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!, Ronald T. Azuma ⭐
• [blog post] Handbook for PhD Students, Autonomous Agents Research Group
• [blog post] How to be a LARG Student, LARG
• [blog post] Documenting your PhD — Keeping Track of Meetings, Experiments and Decisions, DAVID STUTZ
• [blog post] Advice for machine learning PhD students, Markus Heinonen
• [video] How much do you want to find out?

Writing

• [slides] Writing a Good Research Paper, Vincent Lepetit
• [blog post] All grad students (should) study graphic design, Nathan Lambert ⭐
• [blog post] Writing a scientific paper, Stéphane Caron
• [video] - [slides] How to write a great research paper, Simon Peyton Jones
• [blog post] How to ML Paper - A brief Guide, Jakob N. Foerster

Productivity

• [blog post] Calendar. Not to-do lists., Devi Parikh ⭐
• [video] Naval Ravikant's Secret to Reading Books in the Social Media Age, Joe Rogan
• [video] How To Use Zotero (A Complete Beginner's Guide), Steven Bradburn

Coding

• [blog post] LEAR coding guidelines, Matthijs Douze
• [blog post] The Good Research Code Handbook, Patrick Mineault ⭐
• [blog post] Deep Learning Tuning Playbook

Communication

• [video] - [slides] How to Give a Great Research Talk, Simon Peyton Jones
• [video] Natasha Jaques PhD Thesis Defense, Natasha Jaques

Community

• [online forum] Machine Learning News
• [newsletter] Connectionists

Career

• [blog post] YC's essential startup advice, Geoff Ralston, Michael Seibel
• [video] Career Advice with Pr. Merouane DEBBAH, Algerian AI & Big Data Channel
• [blog post] academia/industry dilemma, Titouan Parcollet
• [blog post] Job Hunt as a PhD in AI / ML / RL: How it Actually Happens, Nathan Lambert
• [blog post] How I got a job in industry, Patrick Mineault
• [linkedin post] Job talk prep', Peyman Milanfar
• [blog post (1/2)] - [blog post (2/2)] I'm an ex-recruiter for some of the top companies in the world. I've screened tens of thousands of resumes, and today I published my preferred resume format [...] along with some general resume advice. ⭐
• [blog post (1/2)] - [blog post (2/2)] Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer, Haseeb Qureshi