Blackstrat

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by Blackstrat 5y ago
In the 1980s, when I was starting out, we tended to hire talent not skill sets. Today hiring managers tend to focus on specific skills, often learned haphazardly or only well enough to pass a certification exam. Memory and jargon trumps
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Godel meets Einstein: Time Travel in Godel Universe by Yourgrau may also be of interest.
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Exactly. Innumeracy is a powerful limitation on rationality.
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Brainless? Sorry, I don’t think that’s a defensible position. Read his writings over the years. They reflect more thought than he is given credit for.
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Perhaps ML and data analysis methods aren’t the magical panaceas believed? Or possibly they needed to read Taleb?
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It’s the Guardian. To expect a reasonable thesis is unrealistic. Even a causal study of history would reveal that capitalism has improved the quality of life for more people than any other economic system in history.
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What is the probability that one will catch COVID at all AND if one does, what is the probability of serious illness or death FROM COVID not with COVID? Spend some time on the CDC website and quit listening to bureaucrats, politicians and
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Yep but my beard isn’t completely white yet and I don’t like umbrella drinks. But seriously, my position was “eliminated” just prior to the pandemic, largely because I tried to convince the CIO that a financial company with a million cust
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I completely agree. The interesting thing is that if one focuses on the CDC’s research data instead of their media side, he sees a vastly different picture over the last 18 months. Increasing the achievement gap is part f the objective.
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The IFR in my age bracket is less than 0.5% according to CDC. That’s on par with a bad flu year. Why would I take a vaccine that was rushed to market, hyped by bureaucrats, and which promotes viral mutations (look up peer reviewed resea
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I’m old enough to remember when SA was a serious magazine.
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The lack of healthy skepticism in these comments is somewhat concerning. I guess most here haven’t lived through the last 50+ years of climate and population growth catastrophic warnings. If you are really concerned about CO2 pollution, t
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Having recently retired, I suspect I’m a bit older than most of the people here. I began my career in the early 80’s as an entry level developer at a large company. Eventually, I chased the money into management. In those days, we tended
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And if you think it matters, you are in for a rough career