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How to Give a Great Research Talk

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Simon Peyton Jones shares practical guidelines and advice on how to structure and deliver an engaging research presentation.

Writing papers and giving talks are key skills for any researcher, but they aren’t easy. In this pair of presentations, I’ll describe simple guidelines that I follow for writing papers and giving talks, which I think may be useful to you too. I don’t have all the answers-far from it-and I hope that the presentation will evolve into a discussion in which you share your own insights, rather than a lecture.

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What people say. Highly recommended as an excellent guide on presentation skills, emphasizing the advice to focus deeply on a single aspect.

u/gelisamin r/haskell • Recommends

On “I want to give a talk about Haskell, need some help”

Simon Peyton Jones also gave a great talk on the subject. My favourite piece of advice from it is to "dig deep, not wide": instead of trying to cover all the aspects of the subject in a short amount of time, pick one single aspect and give a deeper explanation of this one facet.

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How to Give a Great Research Talk 00:58:41 by **Simon Peyton Jones** (2016)

u/piyushkururin r/haskell • Mentions

On “Simon Peyton Jones: how GHC type inference engine actually works [video]”

>There once was a Master Programmer who made presentation in Comic Sans. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began presenting in Comic Sans. When the novice asked the Master to evaluate his progress, the Master criticized him for presenting in Comic Sans, saying, "What is appropriate for the Master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand Tao before transcending fonts and presentation. > >Paraphrasing Tao of Programing (Section 3.2)