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NewsaHackO | on: Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
That sounds close to what human researchers do as well. Big part of getting grants/doing graduate work is finding a tractable problem. It requires constant refinement of what the scope and direction of focus.
breezybottom | parent
That's not even remotely how human research works.
NewsaHackO | root | parent
I guess this is the part where you claim to have ever done graduate or higher level research before, that wasn’t just a PI just giving you pre defined, contained side project for a summer.