Bleeding Feet and Dedication

During AISC 2024 I was working with somebody about how to use binary search to approximate a hull that would contain a set of points, only to knock off a glass of my table. It splintered into a thousand pieces all over my floor.

A normal person might stop and remove all the glass splinters. I just spent 10 seconds picking up some of the largest pieces and then decided that it would be better to push on the train of thought without interruption.

Some time later I forgot about the glass splinters and ended up stepping on one long enough to penetrate the callus. I prioritized working too much. A pretty nice problem to have in my books.

Collaboration as Intelligence Enhancer

It was really easy for me to put in over 50 hours per week during AISC[1] (where I was a research lead). [...]

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Outline:

(00:07) Bleeding Feet and Dedication

(00:52) Collaboration as Intelligence Enhancer

(01:53) Hardcore Gamedev University Infiltration

(03:07) Over 9000% Mean Increase

(03:56) Dont pay Me but my Collaborators

(04:41) Join me

(04:54) The Costly Signal

(04:58) Research Artifacts

(07:45) On Portfolios

The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration.

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First published:
May 18th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2D74Ctr5Aj3Sb5f69/fund-me-please-i-work-so-hard-that-my-feet-start-bleeding

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Fund me please - I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleeding and I Need to Infiltrate University” by Johannes C. Mayer

LessWrong (30+ Karma)