There’s a great story you may have heard about a PhD student from a few years back at University of Toronto.
It goes something like this: Every day at lunch, starting in the late spring, the student would walk out onto the football field. He’d bring a large bag of birdseed and a whistle. He’d spread birdseed all over the field. After 20 or 30 minutes, he’d blow the whistle. At first, a few birds would respond to the noise and drop in for some seeds. But gradually, over the course of the summer, more and more birds would descend on the field, expecting to be fed. Then the first football game of the autumn rolled around, the players lined up, the referee blew the whistle, and …
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