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by ellis-bell
1776 days ago
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a huge part of it is trying to solve / formulate easier versions of the problem, or problems that are similar or related to the original problem. Or making some stronger assumptions to get rid of the clutter / all of the moving variables and distill it down to the smallest form a human brain can handle! For many of the "huge" unsolved problems, there tends to be a program of "dominos" or "ledges" you hope to work on in some order that will make the original problem fall. that way you don't just meander idolly from day to day, but instead gain some intuition for the central problem (and of course have publishable work to appease the grant gods / the university). trying to code up some of the work to experiment is also useful, but that can be a research problem of its own :-) |
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