[HN Gopher] When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
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       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)
        
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       | datadrivenangel wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/TUmGl
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       | Boils down to: just do the thing, don't be anxious about it.
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       | 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]
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       | [0] Steven B. Smith's course polsci
       | https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114
        
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