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by jib 12y ago
As someone who once upon a time worked as a bike riding mailman in Sweden, it's largely fine. :) There's a good amount of bike lanes, and they are largely snowy in the winter rather than icy (due to not as much traffic as the main
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by jib 12y ago
Gallup recommends a 3 question version. Net promoter, how likely are you to keep using services in the future and overall happiness. I like that balance. Happy doesn't matter unless you will keep buying. Keeping buying doesn't mat
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by jib 12y ago
Yeah that is the challenge. If I knew the right answer that solves it I would certainly share, but I dont. What I try to do is talk about it over and over, and emphasize for each new initiative we roll out how we dont care about how it will
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by jib 12y ago
The best lesson I ever got about goals I got from learning to play (6-max, limit, texas hold'em) poker. Poker has stupidly high variance to profit ratio, and an endless amount of metrics you could measure to track progress. Obviously,
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by jib 12y ago
Like everything else - used right it is an aide, used wrong it is a negative. If your goal is to pass tests you're missing out on the point of education. Which is to learn stuff (usually, at least). The tests are the metric that we mea
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by jib 12y ago
Danish KR, not Swedish. About 350 USD.
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by jib 12y ago
Isn't this the same problem that music has though? The vast majority of musicians don't make a huge living from creating their own music. You either do it for the joy of it with the hope of possibly being discovered. Struggling ar
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by jib 12y ago
Thats a highly cynical view. There's plenty of optimization problems that aren't about squeezing out productivity at the cost of anyone, but rather about improving productivity and employee satisfaction at the same time. For insta
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by jib 12y ago
Or you can see it as finding out how to take the issue of money and other hygiene factors off the table. Money isn't a great motivator. Lack of decently accurate compensation is a very good de-motivator. Same goes for a bunch of other
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by jib 12y ago
I dont think that is true at all. I am pretty sure I could teach just about anyone who is motivated and interested enough math/chemistry/physics/computer science to get through any given engineering degree in those areas. I t
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by jib 12y ago
10M is way better. Not only is it enough to bank and live off capital gains, it's also a 2.5 times higher valuation than 5% at 200k. The reverse may be interesting. 1m or 200k at 5% is harder.
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by jib 13y ago
Land is sort of a good example (there is scarcity involved, which makes it not a perfect analogy). Land doesn't have any intrinsic value. There are two reasons (unused) land has value: 1) Someone expects to be able to use it to create
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by jib 13y ago
Yeah I mean "If I am operating a business and someone brings an idea for something we should do inside that business, the expected value of that idea is close to 0, and for some business it may be negative". That doesnt say that a
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by jib 13y ago
A lot of people want to be "the idea guy", because it's cool and relatively easy. The problem is that ideas are cheap. The value of any given idea is really low - I would argue that for many organisations ideas even have a ne
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by jib 13y ago
Cost mostly if I got it right? The value in knowing the position doesn't justify equipping all airplanes with some kind of satellite position update system (the two-way part that is), and there is almost no value in that information ou
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by jib 13y ago
Come on. Full tilt decided to run a Ponzi scheme when they were unable to collect funds in the us due to online poker being illegal in the us. They gambled with all their customers funds and lost. That is not good customer service, that is
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by jib 13y ago
The 4th and 2 on the 2 argument bothers me every time someone brings it up. To me it feels like its an incorrect use of statistics. EV isn't the end all - kicking the field goal has way lower variance. If your goal is winning consisten
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by jib 13y ago
Fat Tony probably did. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludic_fallacy
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by jib 13y ago
I think of it this way, I dunno if that is the right way. Programs should be these beautiful mathematical models that describe things - stick something in, get something out. Stick the same thing each time and get the same thing out each ti
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by jib 13y ago
You are applying your values to his life. You're of course welcome to do so, just realise that he has no obligation or reason to accept your judgement. It sounds like you do accept that which is great. To me it is not sad that he has c
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by jib 13y ago
I am not sure why you feel it is rational to modify towards larger ambitions - don't you think that is that a reflection of your own values rather than an inherent truth? I would possibly say that it is rational to modify towards havin
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by jib 13y ago
I think the article makes a true point well. Intelligence of the type that is approximated by IQ (pattern identification, relationship modeling and whatnot) is like most things just another ability. It's a useful ability in that you ca
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by jib 13y ago
I was expecting the story to be that even "trivial" problems have complications once I saw it was about zip-codes. :) A few reasons I've seen where assumptions about how zip-codes work lead to not taking money: Ireland - no z
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by jib 13y ago
Ya - it looks a lot like this website actually. Its a good way to visualise it.
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by jib 13y ago
We did. Not tying it to raises but rather the opposite, as a move to get away from more knowledge=more pay. Raises are based on contribution to the business, the gamification puts some fun stuff around self-improvement without tying it to m
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by jib 13y ago
I think the point he is trying to make is that if your goal is to maximise your profits then it is not always optimal to play the nash equilibrium strategy. That is true. The optimal strategy beats everything but an equally good strategy, a
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by jib 13y ago
No you don't need to know what the opponents strategy is. You calculate based on worst case (ie op playing perfect) and worst case is you break even. There is no way to maximize profit but you can play unexploitable, ie at a minimum no
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by jib 13y ago
Yes, because you know all possible states of the game. Starting out you have 2 cards and you know your opponent has one of 2450 possible combinations of cards. You know exactly how your 2 cards stack up in chances of winning against those 2
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by jib 13y ago
Yes it is possible to mathematically solve limit poker (as well as no-limit poker, but no-limit poker is orders of magnitude more difficult - they are effectively different games). The definition of solvable is "Does there exist a stra
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by jib 13y ago
This is how I see it. Incidentally, stuff like trying to move from 37.5 -> 40h / week is probably one of the most stupid thing a company could do, assuming you have a culture where working time is seen as a social agreement rather t

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