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It's true that effect sizes are very context dependent. Heck, you see it in technology as well. Sometimes, it's worth paying someone to spend a week to optimize
by HWR_14 5y ago
It's true that effect sizes are very context dependent. Heck, you see it in technology as well. Sometimes, it's worth paying someone to spend a week to optimize an instruction or two out of code. Othertimes, the idea that you would spend even an extra 30 seconds looking for that optimization is heresy.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThat follows from Amdahls law, doesn't it? Speeding up the most time consuming part by a little is worth a lot more than speeding up a tiny part of the execution time a lot.
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- ohyoutravel 5y agoIt can, but optimization can mean more than just speed.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThis holds true for any optimization process. You have more money to save cutting costs by a little from your biggest expense than cutting costs by a lot from a small expense.
- chrisweekly 5y agoYour 2nd sentence is very difficult to parse; not nit-picking, just hoping to inspire you to reword for clarity.
- HWR_14 5y agoIt doesn't follow from Amdahl's law directly. Amdahl's law sets an upper limit on how much you can gain in total efficiency from effort. But I actually was speaking about how valuable the effort is. Is it the control loop on a self-landing rocket, a rendering engine for a video game or HFT algorithms? Then the efficiency is probably very valuable in its effects. Is it an app for a dating startup? No one will ever care if you could have shaved a millisecond off the match time.
- bluGill 5y agoI suspect such sites have a timer to ensure they take longer so people think it is a lot of work to find a match.
- sgerenser 5y agoLike TurboTax’s fake progress bars making it look like it’s “trying hard” to get you your maximum refund: https://medium.com/the-billfold/the-progress-bars-in-turbotax-are-fake-de451979ef7d https://medium.com/the-billfold/the-progress-bars-in-turbota...
- bluGill 5y agoYeah, before switching to taxact I did my taxes by hand, even itemized deductions, the computer doesn't save time and there isn't actually much money to save for most people anymore. I only do it by computer now because I once forgot to copy line 13b form 2345 to line 47d of some other form. The resulting mess was annoying to take care of, not hard, but annoying.