Research advice: imagine your line of work succeeding in 5 years to structure it today
abursuc · x · 2026-09-15
Maxi Igl shares a method for setting research directions: ask what your line of research would look like in 5 years if it actually succeeded. Answering that question should suggest how to structure your current work.
More from Research
- ImageNet representational similarity is algorithmic, not mechanistic, argues neuroAI thread — ShahabBakht · 2026-09-15
- NeuroAI researcher: backprop conflates evolution, development and lifelong learning — ShahabBakht · 2026-09-15
- k-server Conjecture Proved, Closing a Classic Online Algorithms Open Problem — minilek · 2026-09-15
- Yale physicists re-grade AI benchmarks: most are broken, frontier models near saturation — inductionheads · 2026-09-15
- Negative Self-Distillation: A Label-Free Method That Trains LLMs to Explicitly Avoid Flaws — kastnerkyle · 2026-09-15
- Podcast: Microsoft researcher hits ~45% on ARC-AGI with tiny recursive networks — ziv_ravid · 2026-09-15