The trick is to keep splitting up your discipline into smaller and smaller pieces, until you can claim your work goes through a bunch of different areas.
24 Jan 2022
“Do you mean to tell me you’ve spent years working on this, but you don’t know how to explain it to me?!”
“Oh no, I can do it…I’ll let you know this afternoon.” (Proceeds to spend that time frantically searching for a good way to communicate the idea.)
21 Jan 2022
“You may have also heard of ‘experiments’ and ‘data’. We won’t worry about that here.”
19 Jan 2022
It’s good to check every once in a while that you aren’t stuck in a local minimum.
17 Jan 2022
This is how I feel about many computer science papers. Such simple ideas, but the notation and equations are so cryptic.
14 Jan 2022
You would think that this should be painless. But no, despite our civilizational advances, this is still a pain.
12 Jan 2022
The highs in science are often short-lived, so make sure to give yourself the time to celebrate. You will have plenty of time to start a new project and be stuck in frustration again!
10 Jan 2022
Normally, I’d be mad about you checking out my mail. But on second thought, could you also sort through it a bit?
03 Jan 2022