# Research papers

* [Two Minute Papers](https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz) - short videos showcasing the latest and greatest AI research.
* [Fermat’s Library Journal Club](https://fermatslibrary.com/journal_club) is a platform for illuminating academic papers.
* [the morning paper](https://blog.acolyer.org) presents an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning.
* [SciRate](https://scirate.com/) is a free and open access scientific collaboration network.
* [Papers We Love](https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love) papers from the computer science community to read and discuss.

[Kevin Kelly](https://kk.org/) on understanding technical papers:

> The best way I’ve found to understand a very technical or scientific paper is to search YouTube for someone to explain it. The ideal is to find a journal club report. Journal clubs are informal groups who share the task of explaining an interesting paper to each other. Each member rotates in picking a paper to explain to their peers. This is 100 times better than having the author explain it, because authors assume too much prior knowledge. It is better to have a newbie who just figured it out. If you are lucky, a journal club will video their reports and post. Search YouTube with the paper’s title or topic and add the term “journal club.”

#### **TIP**

{% hint style="warning" %}
Create a new bookmark. Paste the code below in the URL box. When you are on a site with a paper behind a paywall, click on the new bookmark you've created. It's a quicker way of typing <http://sci-hub.tw/> in front of the article's URL.
{% endhint %}

```javascript
javascript:(function(){window.location.href = "http://sci-hub.tw/"+window.location.href;})();
```

> *I don't use* [*sci-hub*](https://sci-hub.tw) *unless the paper was financed through public means and ended up behind a paywall*.&#x20;

## Links

* [The Dark Rule Utilitarian Argument for Science Piracy](https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/19/the-dark-rule-utilitarian-argument-for-science-piracy/) by Scott Alexander
* How to read science papers: [How to read an academic article](http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2010/08/31/how-to-read-an-academic-article/), [How to read and understand a scientific paper](http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/), [Advice on reading academic papers](https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~akmassey/posts/2012-02-15-advice-on-reading-academic-papers.html), [Should I Read Papers?](http://michaelrbernste.in/2014/10/21/should-i-read-papers.html)
* [arXiv Vanity](https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/) renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
* [How I Research](https://acesounderglass.com/2019/03/27/how-i-research/) by Aceso Under Glass
* [Awesome Research Tools](https://github.com/emptymalei/awesome-research#readme)
* [Academic Torrents](http://academictorrents.com/) - a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers.