What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?

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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.It went through various strategies and landed on the counter-instinctive strategy to do the most uncertain task first.I found the paper quite interesting and insightful, but I can't find it... anyone know which paper I'm talking about?

TruthIsHeresy · Accepted Answer

This probably isn&rsquo;t exactly what you&rsquo;re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping

brudgers · Answer

The one from Tom Sachs is a movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI

What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?

This probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but optimal stopping theory [1] might be related/helpful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping

The one from Tom Sachs is a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evrm03Y5hI