Yacine: The best research starts in confusion and ends with even more questions
yacinelearning · x · 2026-09-04
Engineer Yacine argues the best research is the kind that doesn't answer its original question, finds one odd result and analyzes it a hundred different ways, and ends with more questions than it started with.
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