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Re modular ports, I don't think they are super useful after you've selected your configuration, but being able to have a custom port selection is very nice.
I am using Arch, btw, and everything has been working well so far. I thought there were some drivers issue, but turned out it was due to my bootloader setup (https://yobibyte.github.io/kernel_update.html)
It's probably hard to estimate an impact of reading outside of your field, but this definitely sounds like a good idea. A positive bonus here is that you get more exposure to how people write and talk about research in different areas, and I find it super useful. I've recently read about Curry-Howard correspondence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...), and it was mind-blowing both in terms of what they talk about and how they talk about it.
On the negative side, it's often quite hard to understand only because the terminology is different.
Re Neural Turing Machines, there's been an interesting resurgence of the field working on algorithmic tasks (check out this amazing survey https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09544).
I would probably agree with the "biggest", but disagree with the "only": * The readers might use a note as an extended abstract when selecting a paper to read. This is like a short conference talk which is for advertising the paper and inviting people to the poster session. * The authors get feedback about their research, and some of them engage in a discussion as well.
Having said that, I agree that taking your own notes is better for you.
I'll probably slow down at some point, but I think atm reading stuff gives me more ideas or general understanding what I want to work on and what not. There are drawbacks as well since some papers have a lot of time to read in depth, and a day is def not enough to get a proper understanding.
Re your advice, that's a great point! How do you select a papers outside of your comfort zone?