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Reading a paper without reading all of it
The three-pass method: how to decide in ten minutes whether a paper is worth an hour.
- reading
- triage
- notes
Literature Reviews7 min
Resources
Curated guides, templates, and reading — the things worth knowing before you need them.
9 resources
Verifiedintermediate
Structuring an analysis you can defend
A folder layout and a set of habits that keep a computational project reproducible.
- reproducibility
- code
- structure
Programming7 min
Verifiedintermediate
The 250-word abstract, sentence by sentence
A seven-sentence skeleton that fits the usual word limit and covers everything judges look for.
- abstract
- structure
- word-limit
Abstract Writing6 min
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The questions judges actually ask
Twelve recurring interview questions and what a strong answer contains.
- judging
- interview
- questions
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What separates a finalist project from a good one
Patterns that recur in projects that place, drawn from judging rubrics rather than from any single project.
- judging
- rubrics
- quality
Example Projects8 min
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Operational definitions
Turning "healthier", "faster", and "better" into something two people would measure the same way.
- measurement
- definitions
- reproducibility
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Structuring a literature review
Why chronological reviews read badly, and what to organise by instead.
- writing
- structure
- argument
Literature Reviews6 min
Verifiedintermediate
Writing survey questions that do not lead
Wording, scales, and order effects — the bias you build in before anyone answers.
- surveys
- bias
- questionnaire
Human Participants7 min
Verifiedintermediate
Your model needs a baseline
Why 94% accuracy can be a terrible result, and what to compare against instead.
- baseline
- evaluation
- metrics
Machine Learning7 min