ChatGPT Playground is a web-based platform where you can interact with ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. It is a fun and educational way to explore natural language processing (NLP) and the capabilities of language models. On the ChatGPT Playground, you can ask questions, give prompts, and have conversations with it on a…

Writing the research statement for your postdoc applications can be overwhelming. Indeed, it was a big question mark for me until I figured out what should go into the research statement.  In an earlier post, I shared the research statement I wrote to become a finalist in a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship competition called the Owen…

If you are starting off as a blogger or website owner, you might first want to know how much it will cost. So how much does blogging or having a website cost? I will give you the breakdown for this site. There are three aspects to consider: platform, hosting, and domain. All three potentially cost…

Publishing a paper is kind of like going through pregnancy and giving birth: it is painful and takes a long time from start to finish. This is especially relevant if you are the corresponding author, as you will then need to go through all the stages of the pregnancy – er, publishing process: Write the…

In this post, I write about the four types of research papers that you could and are encouraged to contribute to during graduate school. Note that two or more of these could be combined and so, for example, you could write only one or two total papers during your Ph.D. and still accomplish most of…

I decided I wanted to be a physicist when I was eleven years old. But that was not my earliest ambition. What was it then? You guessed it right! Writer. Writer, of course. Photo by Art Lasovsky on Unsplash I am not exactly sure what triggered it. But I always loved reading and writing. Worked out, academically 🙂…

If you have to put together a research poster presentation and haven’t done one yet, it is way easier to start from a template. In this post, I share a research poster presentation template using PowerPoint. Photo by Jean-Philippe Delberghe on Unsplash I love poster presentations. You can get a lot of traffic and have more time…

In this post, I share the research statement I wrote to become a finalist in a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship competition called the Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellowship at Berkeley Lab. At the time of the application, I did not have any main-author papers published yet but some in the pipeline. If you are wondering what do…