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@itsreallyvivek: how to be good at research nobody really teaches you research. you get a desk, a problem someone else picked, and a vague instruction to produce something novel. so most people reverse-engineer the job from what they can see, which is papers, threads, and announcements, and what they end up learning is how to look like a researcher rather than how to be one. the actual skill is a stack of smaller skills, and almost every one of them can be deliberately trained. pick your own problems richard hamming had a habit at bell labs that made him unpopular at lunch. he'd ask whoever s

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