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This quote: there are a base of unspoken intuitions that underlie expert understanding of a field, that are never directly stated in the literature, because th
by mrfusion 6y ago
This quote:
there are a base of unspoken intuitions that underlie expert understanding of a field, that are never directly stated in the literature, because they can’t be easily proved with the rigor that the literature demands. And as a result, the insights exist only in conversation and subtext, which make them inaccessible to the casual reader.
I’d love to hear these intuitions from every field. Anyone got some?
- Fordec 6y agoAll sensor data, the closer you get to the analog side of things, is bullshit. It's just about smoothing over the bullshit enough to make the tolerances workable for real world applications. We call this bullshit smoothing "calibration". If you're doing work on sensor data and don't have every calibration parameter, whether from configuration or magic factory numbers and statistical tolerances, someone, somewhere is pulling the wool over the eyes of the software guy downstream that works with the final data. Ever looked at weather data from two separate apps and have values vary by multiple degrees? Two different pipeline just sprinkled on their own versions of interpretations on top of raw sewage data.
- brandmeyer 6y ago> Ever looked at weather data from two separate apps and have values vary by multiple degrees? Actually this is because surface temperatures really do have this kind of variation.