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Ask HN: What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?
The question was how to choose what task to work on first (either as a person or for a computer). I think it may have come from Stanford, not sure.
It went through various strategies and landed on the counter-instinctive strategy to do the most uncertain task first.
I found the paper quite interesting and insightful, but I can't find it... anyone know which paper I'm talking about?
- TruthIsHeresy 5y agoThis probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping
- brudgers 5y agoThe one from Tom Sachs is a movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI