I wonder if this is partially a function of decreased attention spans. It takes more discipline than ever to turn off distractions and focus on innovative solutions to hard problems.

EDIT: This quote seems relevant[1]:

> It is fair to say that, in general, no problems have been exhausted; instead, men have been exhausted by the problems.

[1] https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-most-important-scient...

I seriously wonder this as well.

I managed to build a profitable small business and mostly automate it. But now that I'm back in the search for another more ambitious idea to work on, it is way too easy to be distracted by all the electronics around me than to be able to ponder deeply about ideas.

I tried reading a novel the other day, I couldn't make it through 3 pages without reading some random BS on the interwebs.

Damn capitalism for incentivizing companies to make everything as addictive as possible...

The typing update speed blows Overleaf out of the water. I've used Overleaf for the past 3 years. It's a great product, but one of my biggest complaints is slow LaTeX rendering. If this product were a bit more polished I would use it instead of Overleaf.

You should check out TexPad![0] It’s lovely and essentially real-time, with autocomplete, etc. I use it as my editor of choice for all of my papers (not that any of them have particularly challenging layouts).

Really cannot recommend it enough. :)

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[0] https://www.texpad.com/

Shame it's Mac only as it looks exceptionally good. Would love to use on Windows.

This MIT open courseware lecture explains more about the optimum move sequence to solve a Rubik's cube. Some people call this perfect sequence of moves the "God path." https://youtu.be/s-CYnVz-uh4?t=25s

Have you considered using HDFS?

There is a fairly informative post here: https://www.quora.com/How-are-most-data-sets-for-large-scale...