A lightweight workflow for keeping up with AI conference papers

Short summary

A practical three-pass workflow for triaging AI conference papers: 10-second title/abstract scan, 1-minute figures/results check, then deep read only survivors. The author uses Paper List to scope topics across conferences before diving in, caps active reading at ~10 papers, and emphasizes that decision cost—not reading speed—is the real bottleneck. The core principle: extract the delta from prior state-of-the-art in one sentence and move on.

• •Three-pass triage: abstract scan, figures check, then deep read only survivors
• •Topic-first exploration via Paper List before browsing full proceedings
• •Cap active reading at ~10 papers; bottleneck is decision cost not reading speed

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