{"id":6316,"date":"2023-02-23T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6316"},"modified":"2023-02-23T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:35:14","slug":"thirty-five-minus-nineteen-listen-you-might-learn-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/23\/thirty-five-minus-nineteen-listen-you-might-learn-something\/","title":{"rendered":"[thirty-five] minus nineteen: listen, you might learn something"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6317\" width=\"714\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_175238.jpg 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, collaborating on a paper, I was convinced that there was a problem in the algorithm we were presenting, and got together with a colleague to discuss it. He saw some of the problems, but had a different take on others, and kept coming back to a minor point about our use of a method in one step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we talked, we slowly realized the problem I was raising and the comment he was making, while seemingly unrelated, were actually two sides of the same coin. A minor tweak in the use of a published algorithm, seemingly made just out of necessity to make a demo work, was actually a key, load-bearing innovation that made everything downstream in the algorithm work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made the change, and suddenly everything in the paper started to fall into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we&#8217;d never have gotten there if we hadn&#8217;t taken the time to listen to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: Nola, the night of another great conversation with a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, collaborating on a paper, I was convinced that there was a problem in the algorithm we were presenting, and got together with a colleague to discuss it. He saw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,230],"tags":[274,245],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-startuppery","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-startuppery","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}