there is a lesson here. think about the problem before researching it. i've seen a lot of terrible algorithms come from people reading papers which provide sol

there is a lesson here. think about the problem before researching it. i've seen a lot of terrible algorithms come from people reading papers which provide solutions that are worse than they could come up with themselves. they may even assume that the bad algorithm must have some purpose to its badness... like its being done for a complicated reason they didn't think of. The truth is that a paper might not even be written for practical implementation, but to tick some academic boxes. reinventing wheels is bad, but copying bad wheels is considerably worse.