This is such a massive article. I wish I had the ability to grind out treatises like that. Looking at other content on the guy's website, he must be like a machine.

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kqr 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC Gwern lives extremely frugally somewhere remote and is thus able to spend a lot of time on private research.

	▲	tux3 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		IIRC people funded moving gwern to the bay not too long ago.
	▲	lazyasciiart 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That and early bitcoin adoption. There’s a short bio somewhere on the site.

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pas 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

lots of time, many iterations, affinity for the hard questions, some expertise in research (and Haskell). oh, and also it helps if someone is funding your little endeavor :)

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aswegs8 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish I would be even able to read things like that.

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tmulc18 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

gwern is goated