Researcher: the best papers answer nothing and raise more questions
yacinelearning · x · 2026-09-04
Yacine argues the best research is work that doesn't answer its original question, instead finds one odd result and analyzes it a hundred different ways, and ends with more questions than it started with — a take on research taste.
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