Tuesday August 31, 2004

Solutions for problems or problems for solutions ?

I've always found it easier to discover problems that fit a known non-trivial solution methodology than to find a solution for a fixed problem. If you know some cool way of doing stuff, keep your eyes and ears open and find a good problem which can use it: it's unlikely people have tried to apply the same technique to the problem. On the other hand, if you start with a fixed problem, the obvious approaches have already been tried and the problem has either been solved or is very hard.

Carver Mead says the same thing in this interview

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