In the Meaning Crisis that a bookclub going on John Vervake claims that shamanic traditions use sleep deprivation to generate insights and that machine learning generates adaptive models by randomly chucking nodes away from models.
I think you are interested in “great results” and he is talking about “huge reintrepretations”.
On eof the examples usded was that there was a puzzle given to a mathematician to solve. have a chess board and remove opposite corner squares. Can this be covered by dominos with no overlap or gaps? He argues that because the mathematician wasconfident in their math skills they worked on many differnt attempts to cover it. However there is a simple way of posing the problem that makes it solve pretty easy. A “good mathematician” would probably spend a lot of time whithin a snigle frame and would be actuallly be a bad source for insights.
Mathematician Richard Borcherds said in an interview that he does not have a great memory, that this allows him to come back to a mathematical problem and try solving it in a different way than he did before (because he does not remember how he solved it.)
In the Meaning Crisis that a bookclub going on John Vervake claims that shamanic traditions use sleep deprivation to generate insights and that machine learning generates adaptive models by randomly chucking nodes away from models.
I think you are interested in “great results” and he is talking about “huge reintrepretations”.
On eof the examples usded was that there was a puzzle given to a mathematician to solve. have a chess board and remove opposite corner squares. Can this be covered by dominos with no overlap or gaps? He argues that because the mathematician wasconfident in their math skills they worked on many differnt attempts to cover it. However there is a simple way of posing the problem that makes it solve pretty easy. A “good mathematician” would probably spend a lot of time whithin a snigle frame and would be actuallly be a bad source for insights.
Mathematician Richard Borcherds said in an interview that he does not have a great memory, that this allows him to come back to a mathematical problem and try solving it in a different way than he did before (because he does not remember how he solved it.)
There’s also the japanese inventor who would borderline drown himself for ideas.