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Syed Fazle Rahman

Building Bug0, an AI-native E2E testing platform for modern apps - co-founder & ceo @ Hashnode

Jan 3, 2018

What are some good generic research papers you have read related to Computer Science?

#programming #computer-science

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J03

Just another bit in the byte

Jan 3, 2018

Funny you ask that as a few moments ago before seeing this post I made a post of my own linking a paper I just read concerning scaling Bitcoin using the Lightning Network:

Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks

Todd

Software Security TechLead

Jan 3, 2018

Uhhhh. This is tough because there's no such thing as a "generic research paper." The entire point of a paper is to dive deep into a specific subject.

I tend to read papers related to reverse-engineering malware, unpacking binaries, and cryptography but I'm not sure they would fit in the criteria you've asked so please do tell.

TheSheriff

Co-Founder, Founder, Entrepreneur & Problem Solver

Jan 3, 2018

Been doing some machine learning stuff:

"A critical review of recurrent neural networks for sequence learning"
"Machine learning for the prediction of professional tennis matches" - imperial college
"SimpleMKL" - Alain Rakotomamonjy, Francis R.Bach, Stephane Canu, Yves Grandvalet.
"The elements of Statistical Learning - Data mining, inference, and prediction" - A book instead of a paper but still pretty cool.

Also, this - definitely this:

github.com/robertsdionne/neural-network-papers

Which includes extensive blog posts, papers, blogs on many different areas of neural networks :).

stuff ;)

Jan 3, 2018

hmm

ich hope those are enough for the moment. The memory things is not a classic publication paper but it's really good.

As Todd said, "generic research paper" kind of defeats the concept of a research paper... and personally in my experience "computer science research papers" are usually just packed with theoretical double-talk by people who don't actually know how to IMPLEMENT any of the subjects they are discussion. It's educational institution circle-jerking that typically has zero real-world production relevance.

The closest I would come to anything resembling that description still isn't "generic" -- the articles over at nnGroup about accessibility and usability, since they ACTUALLY study it and practice what they preach... as opposed to collegiate level self-BS'ing by those who haven't updated their actual skills in two decades.

SO many "research papers" in "computer science" (even the TERM CS sets my teeth on edge) reek of buzzword bingo double-talk by people not qualified to figure out how to install a notepad replacement.

Definitely some merit to what you're saying here... By sheer volume of actually reading research papers for work, I've found that, despite the fact that I am a Malware Researcher professionally, many of the academic papers on malware research seem to be written for the sole purpose of exploring something different (to get that almighty Ph.D ;)) but are fundamentally useless for solving real-world problems and often present obtuse and overly-complicated solutions, that they really don't contribute much to the field. This is certainly an issue in the field of academic research. However, sometimes such papers do find usage in the far-off future, but most will probably never be applicable.

A simplified but good example of this is 2 years spent developing a custom program to unpack a specific type of malware, when the malware can simply just be run, loaded into memory, and the same data can be extracted completely bypassing the need to unpack the malware entirely. The second solution is a more professional and applicable solution... The first one seems cool but nobody has 2 years to devote to that when there is such an easier alternative.

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