PhD Toolkit
A collection of resources that can offer valuable insights, particularly useful for individuals in computer science, engineering, mathematics, and related disciplines. Found this page helpful? Feel free to share it.
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General PhD Guide
- blog A Survival Guide to a PhD, Andrej Karpathy
- blog You and Your Research, Richard Hamming
- video Machine Learning PhD Survival Guide 2021, Yannic Kilcher
- blog 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 Why Can't I Reproduce Their Results?, Daniel Holden
- video Career Advice / Reading Research Papers, Andrew Ng
- blog So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!, Ronald T. Azuma
- blog How to be a LARG Student, LARG
- blog Documenting your PhD, David Stutz
- blog Advice for machine learning PhD students, Markus Heinonen
- blog Should You Apply for a PhD in AI (2025-26)?, Yash Bhalgat
- video PhD: Dreams, Reality and Consequences, Andrew Akbashev
- video How much do you want to find out?
- blog Advice for Physicists, David Romps
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