Comment by sinuhe69

I think this pattern is quite common among certain types of people. We start things but never finish them. There are many reasons for this, but for me it’s a combination of procrastination, loss of enthusiasm, and diminishing returns. However, it's difficult to define the finish line because we often change our goals. I have a pet project: applying a genetic algorithm to optimise various problem fields. Initially, I just wanted to design a program that was generic enough for numerical optimisation. Then I wanted to experiment with different forms of genomes, and of course the question of efficiency always comes up. Even though I probably can't discover anything significant that other researchers haven't already found, it's a personal challenge that pushes me to find my own insights, which can take a long time. The next challenge is applying GA to image generation, trading algorithms, and so on. So, the project is never finished and is always in a state of flux. But I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing unless it's a paid project. :)