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by formerly_proven
1588 days ago
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> Something I view as a key insight: a lot of labs are doing absurdly labor intensive exploratory synthesis without clear hypotheses guiding their work. This lets you stumble over unknown unknowns. Taylor et al discovered high-speed steel by ignoring the common wisdom and doing a huge number of trials, arriving at a material and treatment protocol that improved over the then-state-of-the-art tool steels by an order of magnitude or more. The treatment mechanism was only understood 50-60 years later. |
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