Some ideas for cultivating creativities:

• Don't always focus on the kernel topics, there are other information outside of topic, or support the topic.That also means think the opposite of the topic.

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• Don't always think in the same level of the topic, there are over-level or under-level about the topic. Sometimes think at a higher level and sometimes zoom in a very detailed level about the themem.

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• Most of methods are embedded in a high dimensions. That means, most of our work focus on a low dimensions, a special case in the whole problem space, try to find the whole problem space, or try to generalize your methods.

Thare are a lot of examples, such as KDN vs KNN