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aorist
4y ago
> The first large failed project was a request for us to attribute all forecasts to fundamental business drivers, and automatically explain the reason for all forecast misses. This is described as an "Insane Business Request",
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This is like Cartiesian scepticism [0] justified by attempting to reject the fixed points of the prior in Bayes' rule [1]. The implication is that your belief in something should always be an epsilon away from 100% (and presumably 0%).