As someone whose brain works in idiosyncratic, orthogonal ways, I was glad to see that my mindset might empirically be valuable after all. Link to full study:...
As someone whose brain works in idiosyncratic, orthogonal ways, I was glad to see that my mindset might empirically be valuable after all.
"In this work we highlight that in these situations the best solutions often come from unexpected directions, because we don't always fully understand how everything works. With biology, there are lots of unknowns and so we need a vast and diverse toolkit of building blocks to ensure we have the best chance of finding the solution we need."
As someone whose brain works in idiosyncratic, orthogonal ways, I was glad to see that my mindset might empirically be valuable after all.
Link to full study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi3621
It makes sense that rigorous optimization has the chance of landing you in a local minimum, which is similar to what happens in AI research.