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October 2, 2006 2

Hamming: Are you working on an important problem? If not, why not?

By in Experimental design, Funding, Writing

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‘sĀ famous essay “You and Your Research” (which is a transcription of [...]