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What is your temporal persistence? Like if you have some project you are putting off while trying to mull over a solution, how long do you generally keep that in mind until you find a solution or it fades from memory, replaced by something more productive. I'm not really talking about consciously shifting focus. I'm talking about the point when a project gets shelved unintentionally; you still hope to get back to it but usually do not. What is your temporal persistence like? Perhaps you complete every project, meaning you are less abstracted and that is fine too.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I once spent about four months trying to understand a single diagram in a math textbook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay that is a lot. What kind of diagram was it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

A diagram showing the domains of single-length vs infinite-length words in a particular type of iterated functional system.