The feelings that are motivating it aren’t really specific to any field, so I suppose it’s “any research I could plausibly do as an amateur without spending too much resources on it”. I’m not specifically planning now to set out and do an easy-for-an-amateur research paper, the main thought driving it is that at some point I might find a question interesting enough to research it on my own, gwern-style, and then if it’s plausible to do so I would want to get whatever work I do up to publishable standards for extra nerd cred.
I only also mentioned Erdos numbers because of a tangent thought of “hey, I’m in the rationalsphere, if I got other rationalsphere people involved in such a project and at least one of them was someone with a finite Erdos number, I’d get one too”. And then by the time I was typing up that comment I had a tab open on this, although I also can’t play an instrument (yet) and have never acted (yet).
What kind of research do you want to do?
The feelings that are motivating it aren’t really specific to any field, so I suppose it’s “any research I could plausibly do as an amateur without spending too much resources on it”. I’m not specifically planning now to set out and do an easy-for-an-amateur research paper, the main thought driving it is that at some point I might find a question interesting enough to research it on my own, gwern-style, and then if it’s plausible to do so I would want to get whatever work I do up to publishable standards for extra nerd cred.
I only also mentioned Erdos numbers because of a tangent thought of “hey, I’m in the rationalsphere, if I got other rationalsphere people involved in such a project and at least one of them was someone with a finite Erdos number, I’d get one too”. And then by the time I was typing up that comment I had a tab open on this, although I also can’t play an instrument (yet) and have never acted (yet).