Comment by Evidlo
1 day ago
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.
1 day ago
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.
IIRC Gwern lives extremely frugally somewhere remote and is thus able to spend a lot of time on private research.
IIRC people funded moving gwern to the bay not too long ago.
That and early bitcoin adoption. There’s a short bio somewhere on the site.
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 :)
I wish I would be even able to read things like that.
gwern is goated