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Curious. Wasn't Steve Jobs somewhat infamous for classifying everything as either "the greatest thing ever!" or "shit"? Jobs as Bayesian classifier! Depending
by jackhack 9y ago
Curious. Wasn't Steve Jobs somewhat infamous for classifying everything as either "the greatest thing ever!" or "shit"?
Jobs as Bayesian classifier! Depending on the corpus, that could be very amusing.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoThat was just marketing, every thing Apple does is great, everything the competition does is shit. He was very quick with his quips about the competition.
- jackhack 9y agoUnfortunately, he was this way with even his trusted inner circle of developers and engineers on the Macintosh project, NeXT, etc. He was well known for this binary trait; he could shower with praise, or explode in intense criticism without regard to feelings (ticking quite a few DSM-IV boxes in the process, no doubt!)