Ask HN: What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?

15 pointsby 1penny42cents4 anni fa2 comments

The question was how to choose what task to work on first (either as a person or for a computer). I think it may have come from Stanford, not sure.

It went through various strategies and landed on the counter-instinctive strategy to do the most uncertain task first.

I found the paper quite interesting and insightful, but I can't find it... anyone know which paper I'm talking about?

2 comments

TruthIsHeresy4 anni fa

This probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping

brudgers4 anni fa

The one from Tom Sachs is a movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI