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It’s a picture of a parabola if someone put the y axis at the dotted line not the origin. If you want to bargain with people - and this fictional conversation i
by hinkley 2y ago
It’s a picture of a parabola if someone put the y axis at the dotted line not the origin. If you want to bargain with people - and this fictional conversation is a negotiation - then don’t anchor the people on bad values.
- hyperpape 2y agoThe article stipulates that 5 is the value that minimizes execution time. So the value between 0 and 5 would’ve been higher. It doesn’t intersect the x-axis because you can’t finish the task in zero time. See the quote below. That said, while I didn’t think it was a confusing drawing, I now wish he’d drawn the rest of the parabola, because it would’ve prevented this whole conversation. > EM: Woah! That’s no good. Wait, if we turn the carefulness knob down, does that mean that we can go even faster? > TL: If we did that, we’d just be YOLO’ing our changes, not doing validation. Which means we’d increase the probability of incidents significantly, which end up taking a lot of time to deal with. I don’t think we’d actually end up delivering any faster if we chose to be less careful than we normally are.
- Dylan16807 2y agoHow is it a bad value? If you centered it on the y axis, that would mean your carefulness scale goes from -5 to 5, and that's just confusing.