[HN Gopher] When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
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When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
 
Author : lxm
Score  : 35 points
Date   : 2023-09-25 03:04 UTC (19 hours ago)
 
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w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
 
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| https://archive.ph/TUmGl
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| Boils down to: just do the thing, don't be anxious about it.
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| Doesn't have anything to do with optimization.
 
  | jaxelr wrote:
  | Thanks for the TLDR.
 
  | gloryjulio wrote:
  | Typical clickbait title. Thanks for the tldr
 
| tick_tock_tick wrote:
| Sounds like they weren't 'optimizing' if stopping yielded better
| results?
 
  | Jensson wrote:
  | "I tried to self optimize and got better" is a more descriptive
  | title. The article is just them discovering that self
  | optimization is more complicated than they initially thought,
  | but they never stopped trying.
 
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| "The English have a system. It is no system. That's also a
| system. Only better." - unknown but mentioned in passing in [0]
| 
| [0] Steven B. Smith's course polsci
| https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114
 
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