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58: Is Optimal The Enemy? | Ep. 59

June 26, 2024
By Josh Pelland

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

03:24 Where We’ve Been

11:26 The Role of Optimization

26:46 Concepts That Seemed Obvious After the Fact

30:45 Recent Papers

34:02 Wrap up

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