Cian O’Donnell on Nostr: Have a new PhD student starting and am unsure how to design their project on the ...
Have a new PhD student starting and am unsure how to design their project on the "difficulty but ambitious" vs "easy but incremental" axis. What are your thoughts/strategies on this topic?
I feel like I have under-thought this aspect in the past, just picked what seemed most exciting scientifically and ramped up from there.
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