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Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) · Posted
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This is a space to share what is actually working for you in terms of research productivity tools. Be specific.what exactly do you use it for and why does it work?

I'll start:

I use Obsidian as my primary research knowledge base. Each paper I read gets a note with:

  • 3-sentence summary
  • Key contributions
  • Limitations (often more useful than contributions)
  • Connection to my work

I also maintain a 'daily research log' where I write for 15 minutes each morning about what I am stuck on. This has been more valuable than any productivity system I have tried.

For writing: Overleaf for LaTeX, but I draft initial versions in plain markdown.

For references: Zotero with the Better BibTeX plugin. Essential.

What is working for you?

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Rekha Shetty Starting 40 pts · Accepted answer

The ethics review situation in Indian universities is actually more complex than most people realize.

There is no uniform national framework equivalent to the US Common Rule. Each institution has its own Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) or Institutional Review Board (IRB).

For anonymous survey research with no identifiable data and no vulnerable populations: most Indian IECs would classify this as exempt, but 'exempt' still needs a formal determination from the IEC.it is not self-certifying.

My practical advice: go to your institution's research ethics office now, describe what you did, and request an exempt determination in writing. Better to have documentation than to discover the issue during thesis review.

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Chetan Jain Growing 100 pts · Accepted answer

Thank you for this detailed answer! A quick follow-up: when you mention cosine learning rate with warm-up, are you warming up the LoRA parameters specifically or the entire model including the frozen backbone?

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Hemant Patwa · Accepted answer

If you are not already using a reading group format with your students, I would strongly recommend it. Forces everyone to articulate what they read.

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Hema Suresh Starting 20 pts · Accepted answer

Seconding the recommendation for Zotero. Game changer for managing references across multiple projects.

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Jaya Lakshmanan Growing 50 pts · Accepted answer

If you are not already using a reading group format with your students, I would strongly recommend it. Forces everyone to articulate what they read.

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Xena D'Souza Starting 25 pts · Accepted answer

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this out in detail. This is going straight into my research notes.

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Chirag Mehta Starting 15 pts · Accepted answer

The IEEE TPAMI turnaround in my case was 7 months for the first review. Plan accordingly.

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Ishaan Verma Growing 60 pts · Accepted answer

Seconding the recommendation for Zotero. Game changer for managing references across multiple projects.