Tweet This is one more post on the Hamming series about how to select your research career topics. It takes courage to think about important unsolved problems. (Excepting of course the officially canonized problems, such as Hilbert’s, Fermat’s Last Theorem, P = NP, …). But the solutions that made a difference were to problems that [...]
Archive for the ‘Experimental design’ Category
October 17, 2006
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Hamming: Courage in scientific endeavors
By jose in Experimental design, Funding, Writing
October 2, 2006
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Hamming: Are you working on an important problem? If not, why not?
By jose in Experimental design, Funding, WritingTweet Today my post will be a bit more high-level than usual. Most of us select scientific topics without paying much attention to overall strategy (i.e., which ones may produce the most benefit). On this, the best piece of writing I have found is Richard Hamming‘s famous essay “You and Your Research” (which is a transcription [...]