So, the curious thing about recursion is that pretty much always can you implement this idea of doing the same thing again and again and again but with smaller bytes each time.

可见，递归算法中新奇的一点是,为了实现一个想法,你可以一遍又一遍地做相同的事情,但每次的规模都会有所减小。

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and to kind of throw away my ideas that are perhaps a bit too creative, a bit too off the wall.

放弃我那些过于新奇、太异类的想法。

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Can you give us a few examples of places where this is banged in conflict and perhaps how your own thinking, in discussing this, may have involved, expanded, taken surprising directions?

能不能给我们举一些,这些不同点之间发生冲突的例子,或者说你在思考这些时，你的想法，是如何不断充实又变得新奇的呢？

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