This week, Aleksey and I met not to dissect a research paper, but to chat about "the process of PhD". I had recently wrote a post titled "The Invisible Curriculum of Research", where I framed research as an iceberg, with the small visible parts (papers, conferences) resting on the hidden 5 Cs:| Metadata
Courses, textbooks, and papers provide the formal curriculum of research. But there is also an invisible curriculum. Unwritten rules and skills separate the best researchers from the rest.| Metadata