'We launched it expecting nothing' — researcher recounts accidental discovery behind a paper

sedielem · x · 2026-10-19

kpetrovvic shares how their paper came about: while working on a completely different project, they launched an experiment late one night that theoretically and intuitively shouldn't have worked — and were surprised to find the observation held generally. sedielem calls accidental discoveries one of his favorite kinds of research papers, alongside 'we tuned the baseline until it hit SoTA and published that instead'.

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