Research Debt
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Science is a human activity. When we fail to distill and explain research, we accumulate a kind of debt...
Research Debt Distill Research Debt Authors Affiliations Chris Olah Google Brain Shan Carter Google Brain Published March 22, 2017 DOI 10.23915/distill.00005 Achieving a research-level understanding of most topics is like climbing a mountain. Aspiring researchers must struggle to understand vast bodies of work that came before them, to learn techniques, and to gain intuition. Upon reaching the top, the new researcher begins doing novel work, throwing new stones onto the top of the mountain and making it a little taller for whoever comes next. Mathematics is a striking example of this. For cent
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