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It's something I've actively used for almost two decades now when dealing with challenges i'm stuck on. I remember one of my professors explaining it as having a 'prepared mind'.
What I do is, before I go to bed, try to summarize the problem to myself as concise as possible (like rubber ducking) and then go to sleep. Very often the next morning I wake up with a new insight or new approach that solves the problem in 10 minutes that took me hours the day before.
To solve this in a virtual environment you'd need a comparable amount of implicit trust. For #1 it's doable: have a trustworthy domain name. Amazon.com is a lot more trustworthy than look-at-my-shop.tk. For #2 I don't think there's a trustworthy equivalent, since it's either off-site by a third party or unverifiable by users.
> More should be revealed on 18 March, when Nayak is due to give a talk on Microsoft’s topological qubit data at the American Physical Society meeting in Anaheim, California.
> In the meantime, “there’s no convincing, even mildly convincing, evidence for Majoranas”, Beenakker says.
The field of quantum computing is very interesting for the difficulties and claimed immense gains when successful. The route that Microsoft has chosen for its research is a lofty one; doing it fundamentally different than others in the field. However, this 'break through' sounded exactly like the break through reported in 2018[1] which has been redacted.
I'm looking forward to the presentation 18 March
Looking at it from a development perspective the two can mean the same thing: we pivot and so we need to add new features.
However, in my experience the key is to look at pivoting from a non-development perspective. As mentioned in parent comments you pivot to find a product market fit. That entails finding your audience and the problem you're solving for them. Those questions do not require a product, but a human understanding. Questions like 'is it actually a problem they need solving, or a slight convenience?' and 'how are they solving their problem without my product?'.
By pivoting quickly in that space you don't get bogged down by technical issues or challenges that don't even matter, and the real solution might be a week's worth of time.
> But my Scrum friends reminded me that stand-ups were never supposed to be status reports. They said that an evil elf named Yesterday-today-no-blockers McIntyre spread that lie around the industry long ago, and people have been confused ever since.
So I did some digging in the resources from the ScrumAlliance. There I found:
> The three-questions format was included in older versions of the Scrum Guide but no longer appears in the updated guide.
So what to do instead? I also found this snippet which I think is useful:
> The daily scrum is not a status meeting or status report. The purpose isn’t for a scrum master, manager, or stakeholder to see who is on schedule and who is behind; instead, it’s an opportunity for self-managing team members to synchronize with one another.
The scale goes up to G5, so this one is pretty serious.
As we've seen with 'OpenAI' there's never a guarantee, but I applaud this step.
The requirements of the distinct fields have gotten to a point where it's very impractical and hardly worthwhile for one person to master them all. You can't expect someone to translate a design into modern components that support all types of devices, resolutions and contexts to also come up with optimized SQL queries and knowing how to choose between Docker and Ansible for their distributed serverless functions that handle a variety of external endpoints.
Ofcourse not every project that uses this approach needs this approach, and there's still a market for the Do-It-All developer. My point is that the webdevelopment world of today isn't that of a decade ago.
Especially in a team I can see a lot of added value from someone with a lot of experience during this proces. Documenting the outcome of that creative process is easily done with text-to-speech software.
In terms of best buy in 2022 was the Peak Design Capture Camera Clip. For a photographer it's amazing to not have the weight of the camera around your neck but securely attached to my backpack strap. The ease of attaching and removing the camera makes me actually use it more on hikes.
Like many scientific fields these days the breath and depth is immense. Are you looking for a specific niche of astronomy or an overall understanding of the universe? And is that from a human perspective or perhaps a physics perspective?
I would narrow down your interests and start finding relevant sources there. Or, if you don't know, start at a very broad source like space.com or nasa.gov and explore the topics that grab your attention.
[1] https://www.inceptivemind.com/first-perovskite-solar-cell-co...
I wish they put more effort into this. It deserves it!
Somewhat of a grey area in terms of legality, but not cracked (which would be strictly illegal).