(Latin: [ˈsolwitur ambuˈlandoː]) - Saint Augustine

Most hard problems are not solved by just looking at the equations; you have to think hard about them.

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You decided to work on something hard, you put in the time, and you even started writing about it. You broke the problem down to first principles, yet you still don’t understand how something is supposed to work. You hit a block, you reach a level of thinking that, at this moment, you are not progressing. It used to happen a lot when writing code. Now with AI, I have a feeling that not the case so often.

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It almost always helps when there is a simple, practical solution to a hard philosophical or theoretical problem. So maybe you were trying to figure out how this algorithm could work, but you don’t even need it in the first place.

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