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> it sounds like there were already precedents or existing pieces of knowledge, but humans had not thought to connect them

A lot of math research is like that. And, like the blog post suggests, problems one gives PhD students are 95% like that.



Maybe I am still fortunate to have become a programmer.

Most of what I do is just assemble things that other people have already built.




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