itsmejeff

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by itsmejeff 5y ago
W1nning - Tim Grover Never Split the Difference - Chriss Voss Three Laws of Performance - Steve Zaffron Peak - Anders Ericsson All of these books fall into the category of rounding out my world view. I’m an engineer, and spent nearly 100% o
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by itsmejeff 5y ago
My process is to dig in and really try to apply the knowledge in some place where it is required to solve the problem. This has never failed me, but it’s hard, because it’s WORK. You can’t just sit and consume material (though consuming mat
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by itsmejeff 5y ago
I really like thought exercises like this, but find it troublesome when authors (like this one) do not offer alternatives that address the weakness of the common approach, they just just point the weaknesses out and metaphorically “shrug”.
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
This may be a bit of a paradigm shift on the original question, but I’ve found that arranging my software and project in such a way that “cognitive overhead” is minimized will make startup cost extremely low. If the code is very simple to r
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
I’ve been pondering this a lot lately, as an engineering leader. Masters in my organization have an extremely high ratio of value shipped to hours worked. This means two things. They are able to discern and avoid work that does not provide
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
I got bored with engineering because it became easy. The patterns always repeated, and I knew that the only thing standing between me and my desired outcome was a fully understood path of actions. I don’t believe you have to reach this leve
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
No, I already have two MS degrees (1 in Mechanical Engineering, 1 in CS) — I’m not interested in more school. Maybe that will change in the future.
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
Truthfully — the biggest thing has been leaning into my gut more as opposed to trying to reason through everything thoroughly. The decisions are many and the time is short. Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” is a great read, and when work
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by itsmejeff 6y ago
When I got bored with software engineering, I decided to invest in developing leadership skills and to try to build teams. Many people (myself included) are motivated by the impact their career can have. The impact of a great leader is exp
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by itsmejeff 7y ago
The best programmers I know write good code within the constraints of a fast paced business environment and they are also able to clearly articulate trade offs to stakeholders. They don’t complain about business constraints and they put ou
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by itsmejeff 7y ago
If it was important to your well-being you would have already addressed it. Delete it all and start fresh. Or just stop altogether.
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by itsmejeff 7y ago
“All these super smart people who came before me spent more collective time than my entire life, but the solution they arrived at is wrong “
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by itsmejeff 7y ago
This Freakonomics episode about what’s missing from the standard math curriculum is really good http://freakonomics.com/podcast/math-curriculum/
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by itsmejeff 8y ago
He calls it a "relative operating characteristic curve", then links to a Wikipedia article for the properly named "receiver operating characteristic curve". Maybe I'm wrong but I've never heard the former term
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by itsmejeff 8y ago
Jupyter Lab may be more like what you're after: http://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/interface.ht...
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Digital Twin Example for Engineers(verypossible.com)
40 points by itsmejeff 8y ago|8 comments
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by itsmejeff 8y ago
It's almost trivial for computer vision to recognize a child -- we already have backup safety cameras to protect children (among other things), why not a backseat cam?
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by itsmejeff 8y ago
This article climbs the HN ranks once every few months... I'm a "real" engineer who chose to make my career in software. There are obviously things that this author does not know about software engineering and there are thin
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by itsmejeff 9y ago
The Nash equilibrium for an unlimited vacation policy is no vacation for anyone. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...
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by itsmejeff 10y ago
I use http://marxi.co , which is an excellent markdown to Evernote tool. This has gotten me through many college courses. Working on my second MS right now.