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推荐文章 how to be good at research

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https://r.slax.com/b/9f317e59-61bb-441b-8be8-9a097f4ec53f
大家都有 AI 工具,我就不狗尾续貂地翻译了,这篇文章读下来,没有复杂的理论术语,挺对我胃口。没看过的,建议直接去看看,比看我的公众号有营养多了。
记录对几句话的感触:
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he'd ask whoever sat near him what the important problems in their field were, then ask why they weren't working on them. 
从问题入手,问问自己,你所在的行业,有什么最重要的,未被解决的问题?静下来想这件事,还挺奇妙的。如果想不出来,你一直在干嘛?如果解决不了,你一直在干嘛?如果没问题?你一直在干嘛?
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old material is criminally underpriced. this field reruns its own past on a delay: mixture of experts dates to 1991, lstms to 1997, backprop went mainstream in 1986. rich sutton needed about a thousand words in 2019 to write the bitter lesson, and it predicts the shape of the field better than surveys ten times its length. claude shannon gave a talk on creative thinking in 1952 where his opening move was to shrink a problem until it's nearly trivial, crack the small version, then reintroduce the difficulty one piece at a time. that single trick will carry you through more walls than any modern productivity advice.
这段话里提到了香农和萨顿,他们是谁?这段话的背后有什么故事或者文章?有人停下来了解了吗?
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a descending loss curve is not analysis, it's reassurance. your experiments throw off far more information than you consume: transcripts, failure cases, the strange tail of the distribution. most of it dies unread in a logs folder.
我自己也有一个大问题:沉迷于创造,希望灵光一闪能带来数据上的突破。但是缺少对输出的仔细观察、调优、改进。那些脏活累活简单的活里,可能潜藏着价值。这可能也是我们说的“闭环”。
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