The question was how to choose what task to work on first (either as a person or for a computer). I think it may have come from Stanford, not sure.<p>It went through various strategies and landed on the counter-instinctive strategy to do the most uncertain task first.<p>I found the paper quite interesting and insightful, but I can't find it... anyone know which paper I'm talking about?
This probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping</a>
The one from Tom Sachs is a movie:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI</a>