OP found a different source of joy: "I wanted the fun of working through the problem myself, rather than just implementing someone else’s research."
replyFair enough.
replyReminds me of a story a coworker told me about his band rehearsal when the new drummer counted one-two-three-four-five-six-se-ven-eight.
replyas with every discipline that AI and therefore computers can reason through suddenly:
replyyou could always do the discipline you liked before for self fulfillment purposes, and you can still do it for self fulfillment purposes now
But most people who want to get good at their main discipline, even for self-fulfillment purposes, have been gaining the necessary experience through their job, because an unrelated job takes away too much time to do so.
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