My POV is you are either hitting the hard core problems, in which case you aren’t practising, you’re trying to do the real thing, or you are advancing AI capabilities by solving some other problem, which is bad given the current strategic situation.
Write the textbook is an interesting study strategy. It’s impossible with math though, in which each chapter might be the entire life’s work of multiple a skilled mathematician. This is probably also true of other fields.
The idea is that you write the textbook yourself until you have aquired all the skills about doing original thinking. It’s not about never looking up things. Though aquiring the skill of thinking by reinventing things seems better, because the research frontier has much harder problems. So hard that they are not the right difficulty to efficiently learn the skill of “original problem solving”.
My POV is you are either hitting the hard core problems, in which case you aren’t practising, you’re trying to do the real thing, or you are advancing AI capabilities by solving some other problem, which is bad given the current strategic situation.
Write the textbook is an interesting study strategy. It’s impossible with math though, in which each chapter might be the entire life’s work of multiple a skilled mathematician. This is probably also true of other fields.
The idea is that you write the textbook yourself until you have aquired all the skills about doing original thinking. It’s not about never looking up things. Though aquiring the skill of thinking by reinventing things seems better, because the research frontier has much harder problems. So hard that they are not the right difficulty to efficiently learn the skill of “original problem solving”.