The Quiet Role of Luck in Research
It started with an error message. I was running MRI preprocessing — nothing unusual, the same pipeline I’d used before, the same steps others in the lab had run dozens of times. But instead of humming along, it stopped. Cannot locate files. I stared at it for a moment, confused in the way you’re confused when something that has always worked suddenly doesn’t. I checked the code. I checked the path. Then I checked the server folder. ...