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by nologic01 1115 days ago
There is something that rings true about the metaphor. Discovery is mostly an incremental process of trial and error around a neighborhood which occasionally probes a new opening and then there is a rush of activity in that new plane.

The simplest mathematical model of this might be a Levy flight [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight