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This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can any

This is a great idea, thanks OP. I've been wanting to cultivate a habit of reading a relevant paper (or abstract) at some cadence, such as once a week. Can anyone recommend a way to find the important and/or influential papers in a given field? Maybe something similar to The Morning Paper. Edit: thanks everyone for the great suggestions!

pm90 5y ago
This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. One thing I liked about grad school is that there would literally be classes where students were assigned to read a foundational paper in the field and then discuss/write about it, so my personal go to has been to try and find “Intro to X” grad level courses and see their paper assignments (most professors tend to put most course material online). It’s not something guaranteed to give you results but often I will stumble into interesting stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise.
- RandomThrow321 5y ago
  > This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion! While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC: https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.
pramodbiligiri 5y ago
You can choose the topic you’re interested in and either go for “test of time” awarded papers in the field, or pick up a list from a graduate course in any University. That way the professor would have done the curation for you. Just throwing out a link to one such paper based course (Datacenter Networkjng) from UC San Diego - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html
beakerbreaker 5y ago
You didn't mention what field(s) but Arxiv Sanity Preserver has top papers users have added to their libraries. http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top
vpj 5y ago
https://papers.labml.ai/ https://papers.labml.ai/
dagw 5y ago
2 minutes papers on YouTube is pretty good for physics simulation and AI papers. Plus you get a dude giving a quick explanation why the paper is relevant and important so you don't have to go in completely blind.

pm90 5y ago

This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. One thing I liked about grad school is that there would literally be classes where students were assigned to read a foundational paper in the field and then discuss/write about it, so my personal go to has been to try and find “Intro to X” grad level courses and see their paper assignments (most professors tend to put most course material online). It’s not something guaranteed to give you results but often I will stumble into interesting stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise.

RandomThrow321 5y ago
> This is a good question, but I’m not sure if there’s a good answer. I think you've actually given a great answer here. This is essentially what I did in grad school as well and found it really helpful. I never thought to continue doing this in fields that piqued my interest. Thanks for the suggestion! While we're on the topic, here's the advanced distributed systems reading list from UIUC: https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList https://go.cs.illinois.edu/CS525SP21ReadingList I took the class a number of years ago, but found it super interesting.

pramodbiligiri 5y ago

You can choose the topic you’re interested in and either go for “test of time” awarded papers in the field, or pick up a list from a graduate course in any University. That way the professor would have done the curation for you. Just throwing out a link to one such paper based course (Datacenter Networkjng) from UC San Diego - https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp15/cse291-b/syllabus.html

beakerbreaker 5y ago

You didn't mention what field(s) but Arxiv Sanity Preserver has top papers users have added to their libraries. http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/top

vpj 5y ago

https://papers.labml.ai/ https://papers.labml.ai/

dagw 5y ago

2 minutes papers on YouTube is pretty good for physics simulation and AI papers. Plus you get a dude giving a quick explanation why the paper is relevant and important so you don't have to go in completely blind.