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gpttpgon Ask HN: How do I know if I am shadow banned on HN?

How would you resolve it? :)

gpttpgon Ask HN: How can I become like Sherlock Holmes?

Interesting. That's why I come to HN. I really appreciate the detailed post.

I have another question.

How would you go about solving unsolved problems? It's quite to difficult to not end up in rabbit holes and lose track of what you are doing.

I have often ended up chasing the wrong thing/going in the wrong direction.

gpttpgon Ask HN: How can I become like Sherlock Holmes?

What concrete approaches would you take to internalize this?

gpttpgon Ask HN: How can I become like Sherlock Holmes?

How can I effectively narrow down the search space? I often observe myself to be going around circles/stuck in rabbit holes. Lack of clarity perhaps.

I was thinking of something along the lines of CEA (I felt that I could relate to this) with better heuristics if it makes sense. Sort of like optimized bruteforce methods.

If it doesn't, then it would be helpful to know why and what can I do to improve on these flaws.

I asked this question partly because I have seen people with really good investigative/debugging skills and it reminded me of Sherlock Holmes. "How do they do it?" This question would often strike my mind.