Links

Utils

• Forget/ignore the name of that weird LaTeX symbol, just draw it here, or if you are a poor drawer but very patient, check it here.

• A list of useful/important tools, best practices, tips and other guidelines when writing scientific papers can be found here.

• Interesting list of free and/or open-source technical textbooks.

Worth reading

• Gödel letter to von Neumann on Turing machine complexity and Growth Rate question (1956)

On optimistic research

• research as leisure activity by CELINE NGUYEN (2024)

• Principles of Effective Research by Michael A. Nielsen (2004)

• You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (1986)

• Reproducible Research: Best Practices and Potential Misuse by Emil Björnson (2019)

• How Do People Get New Ideas? by Isaac Asimov (1959)

• The Value of Science by Richard P. Feynman (1955)

• What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? by Brian Potter (2024)

On pessimistic research

• Don’t publish with IEEE! by D. J. Bernstein.

• Allons-nous continuer la recherche scientifique? by Alexander Grothendieck (1972)

• Le piège abscons de la recherche scientifique by Romain Couillet (2022)

• D’autres articles anthropocene by Romain Couillet

• The scientists who publish a paper every five days by Springer Nature (2018)

• So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it? by Nature (2024)

For students

• How to write and publish engineering papers and reports H. B. Michaelson & C. R. Fenno (1983)
• Oral presentation advice Mark D. Hill (1997)

Open source projects that got my attention

• Prince of Persia 1985 source code

• A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language.

• Le Low-tech Lab est un programme de recherche et de documentation Open-Source visant à valoriser l’innovation low-tech tout en boostant son développement.

• A curated list of open-source space-related projects, APIs, data, and other resources.

Miscellaneous

• Here he comes to save the day!