Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

The dot product is a positive definite matrix, and so we see that those will have an important link to familiar geometry.

A quote by Ciro's Teacher R.:

If the goals are not ambitious enough, you risk not even having useful side effects so show in the end!

By doing the prerequisites of the impossible goal you desire, maybe the next generation will be able to achieve it.

This is basically why Ciro Santilli has contributed to Stack Overflow, which has happened while was doing his overly ambitious projects and notice that all kinds of basic pre-requisites were not well explained anywhere.

This is especially effective when you use backward design, because then you will go "down the dependency graph of prerequisites" and smoothen out any particularly inefficient points that you come across.

Going into such productive procrastination is also known informally as yak shaving.

There are of course countless examples of such events:

The danger of this approach is of course spending too much time on stuff that will not be done enough times to be worth it, as highlighted by several xkcds:

TODO arguments, proofs

Is this the one?

This is hot shit, a possible worst case but sure to get there scenario to understand the brain!

It is quite mind blowing when you think about it, that the huge majority of your body's cells is essentially just there to support a tiny ammount of germline, which are the only cells that can actually pass on! It is fun to imagine the cell type tree for this, with a huge branching of somatic cells, and only a few germline going forward.

Has the property of visiting all descendants before the parent.

This is the order in which you would want to transverse to read the chapters of a book.

Like breadth-first search, this also has the property of visiting parents before any children.

Most important things to know: