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Alex Zhang says that once a research problem reaches the point where experiments can be run, the work becomes relatively easy.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“just spend like all my time thinking and working on that problem and then i you know once you get to the point where like you can just run experiments then it's it's it's kind of easy coasting again so yeah”1:36:52Report a misattribution
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