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To clarify, the Nobel prize comment is a reference to the last sentence of the passage: "The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came
by hathawsh 3y ago
To clarify, the Nobel prize comment is a reference to the last sentence of the passage: "The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate."
- smugglerFlynn 3y agoI understand. I just wanted to point out that pattern does not seem to have Nobel/etc reward built into it, neither it is a strategy to achieve something other than having fun and discovering random things that interest you. Everything else is coincidental. You might easily end up living on the street by applying that strategy. On the other hand, some of the best results I ever got professionally were coming from that exact state of play that Feynman describes.
- blep_ 3y agoThat would seem to be why they asked how repeatable the pattern was, in a tone heavily implying the answer was "not very".