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What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything

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How Do You Get Started Reading Papers?

If I wanted to become an expert quickly, perhaps what I might do is memorize the most famous openings or closings and in a very deliberate way. It seems though, to some extent, it's what the chunks are emerging out of that process of study. The same is pretty much true as a theoretical physicist so reading theoretical physics and mathematics. And there's this strange thing. You go into a new part of it and you sort of, at first, you read papers very slowly and then this funny thing starts to happen.You're not really conscious of, you can start to look at a new paper.

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