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Andy Matuschak
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It'd be fun to compile more "exercises for developing research taste"! Contributions? My taste isn't great yet, but sharing one: ask the anti-Hamming question about your ideas. What are the most interesting (not important!) problems in your field? Why aren't you working on them?
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Chris Olah
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An important part of growing as a researcher is developing research taste. But it can be hard to explicitly work on. So I wanted to share some concrete exercises for developing research taste. (Take my advice with a grain of salt! Note version: colah.github.io/notes/taste/ )
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Andy Matuschak
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I'll also share a failure mode (one I hit too often): running to make an idea happen as soon as it seems tractable. It's exciting to have a viable approach—makes me wanna go do it! But if I sit with an idea longer I can often evolve a deeper variant and run with that instead.
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