[HN Gopher] When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | datadrivenangel wrote: | https://archive.ph/TUmGl | | Boils down to: just do the thing, don't be anxious about it. | | 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 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-25 23:00 UTC)