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by JorgeGT
3160 days ago
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> Not to mention social events on any subject when talking to professionals from other domains triggers solution to a long lasting problem. This is becoming more and more important as science/technology keeps getting compartmentalized. Not to go as far as the medical doctor who rediscovered numerical integration [1], but I have the certainty that in my research I'm doing many things in a horribly inefficient way, out of ignorance. Just the other day I learned about k-d trees and sped up a piece of software in my lab by an order of magnitude... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1964613 |
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