Sudoku and Doing Your Best Work – Towards Data Science – Medium

A lot of our lives, both our working lives and our personal lives, are spent doing repetitive, uncreative tasks. Many of these tasks are enjoyable: they include hobbies like gardening or baking that we enjoy for hard-to-articulate reasons. But, they also include things we don't want to do, like laundry or washing the dishes. While we cannot simply program a robot to do the tasks listed above, there are a lot of repetitive tasks, especially ones that don't involve manipulating physical objects, for which we can. For example, scientific software packages like Wolfram Alpha can solve most differential equations automatically, so that humans no longer have to solve them by hand.