Research practice, tooling etc.
- Tools for research — the whole stack, day to day
- Familiarising yourself with a literature — reference manager plus LLMs, quickly
- Google Antigravity, reading papers — an agent that reads PDFs properly
- Gemini through Brave’s Leo — configuring the API endpoint
- GitHub Copilot for free — for students and academics
Programming notes: patterns that survived contact with real projects, and the occasional rescue operation.
- LLM calls as pure functions — treating a prompt as a typed, stateless function
- Translating an unwieldy codebase — a 1000-line MATLAB function into Python, without going insane
See also vision-and-perception.