Stuff I'm Working On

I like working through research papers.  At least well-written research papers.  It's very satisfying following a line of logic from beginning to end, and seeing some novel outcome produced as a result.  However, the delineation between working through research papers and being  a researcher has never been made clear to me.  Obviously a professional researcher is someone who is likely involved with the publication of research, not just reading it.  But I suppose, from my perspective, that's a difference between how one uses the tools at their disposal.  Still, I think it's worth sharing my experience with research papers to provide some background on where I'm coming from. I'm most familiar with research papers in the domain of deep learning.  Specifically, I've spent most of my time reading research papers dealing with deep reinforcement learning.  The paper " Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning " (Mnih, 2013) was my first foray into the re