mattcwilson

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by mattcwilson 5y ago
> Well I'd be curious to hear how. A lot of hard work, non vehicular labor, local sourcing, and luck, providence, perseverance, and serendipity. How do you suppose humans did it prior to the invention of the coal mine and oil drill?
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I read “change it” as encompassing any modification to the status quo short of quitting it altogether. So, yes. But so also would be writing a petition to reinstitute work from home as a “performance bonus” and getting it signed by as man
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I don’t think it’s impossible? I think there’s a question of what fossil-fuel dependent comforts you’re willing to give up. But I assure you it’s entirely possible to live and have all of those goods, today, fossil-fuel free.
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Music, art, books, comedy, pets, food, land, clothing, shelter... provided it’s all locally produced, I suppose. Are you going after something in particular? Seriously not trying to be facetious - I just don’t understand where you’re heade
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Sounds good. I’m not sure I know any better solution either. I really like: > I am for frequent tests (so much so that they should not be a stress), but without those tests contributing to some ranking or having an effect at some final
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Cool, I totally get it. How do we stop higher education and employers from setting “competition rank” as the new standard?
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
> Students who perform should be ... encouraged to participate in competitions (these are ranked) ... > Grades are simply not the tool to use beyond the level of "doing fine". I am having trouble square rooting these two see
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I like the “leverage/hack human psychodynamics to achieve positive group outcomes” angle. Guess I should check out some William James. Wondering if maybe it’s less paying tsars and bureaus to solve climate change, and more about pay
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
No clear right or wrong answer, sure. But do you not take any sort of measure both before and after the feature launch to evaluate what effect it had? How much “more right” (or not) you got? How do you know that all the talk with the custo
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
You seem to be implying that there is no value in a student who just barely meets the standard trying any harder or going any further. I hear you about stress. You seem to be saying though that even when stress isn’t an issue, there is no
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I see your point about the possibility for a student getting an A to have perhaps gamed the system. Are you saying the same is true for (some of, all of) the C students? Are you saying that C students may in some cases be superior to the s
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
> What is important is them knowing how to improve, not how they rank against their peers. 100% agree with this. I don’t see how it’s fundamentally incompatible with grades. If anything, a pre-post grade change, imo, would be the best
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
If grades are utterly uncorrelated with proficiency, then you are correct. Is that your claim? Grades have zero information content, zero predictive power, over someone’s proficiency at the time the grades are given?
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Strange to assume GP didn’t read the article. I did, and I have these similar questions: 1. How do I, as a student receiving this teacher feedback, know how seriously to take it? How do I know when it indicates I should spend an additiona
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
> what William James called the "Moral Equivalent of War", not as mere National Service, but as Global Service. Literally pay people salaries to fight climate change. I see what you’re going for with this, and I imagine I could
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Agree that math on its own isn’t the truly compelling thing for everyone. I do believe that, since it fundamentally links and describes all sorts of observable phenomena, math is a gateway to a general understanding of the universe. And so
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Why not both develop a passion for mathematics and use that to propel your success on the exam?
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
True, but I think the claim is also that said intiuition does not manifest in a general way when dealing with the subject matter; only on the tests. In which case it would not correlate to performance on real world outcomes.
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Funny, I rely on those same skills in management all the time. So much so that I wish that the value of those skills, independent of educational subject matter, had been emphasized to me as a young person.
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Maybe? I am not sure how much "role assignment" is handled as part of SSO vs. how often SSO is purely authentication and there's another app-tier layer that's doing authorization. "Role definition" is certainl
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
My experience as a manager has been frustratingly similar. For the same security and least-access reasons, I don’t have a view into the systems permissions tables for all of the tools that my team uses. I also don’t have a “definitely comp
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I agree that if you don't like getting 5 sigma events against your model's forecast, sure, change your model. But I'm curious whether the model in question is even looking at 5-day events, or more at monthly/annual/
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I think part of the issue here is “a company” isn’t a particular human being or team that is specifically incentivized to “give a shit about the employees.” What this looks like from my vantage point is: anyone who is a director (manager-
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
This was the onboarding program that we had had and I’m trying to devise a replacement for. Because yeah, it sucked as both an experience and also in terms of effectiveness. What I’m doing now is a weekly series of recorded hands-on/w
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Sounds legit. Do you have a more detailed writeup of how to go about this? Not just from a technical standpoint, but how to campaign with stakeholders that the value is there, that it’s a good use of team time? And how to campaign with t
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. That’s helpful perspective for me, as a manager, to consider. One thing I try very hard to do for my new onboarders is to establish trust and open dialogue with them, as quickly as I can, to make it easier for persona
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
I’m guessing you didn’t read the whole paper. Perhaps you thought it would be boring? They did two different studies. One took a list of occupations, and asked the respondents “Joe is an accountant. How boring does that make him seem, 1-
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
> At the start of the second round of the rehearsal, participants are given feedback based on various performance metrics from the activities of the previous day. Detailed data are provided that show the ideal versus the actual performan
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
That’s absolutely right. But as the article itself says, we don’t know if this is the start of some trend or if this is a never previously observed fluke. Climate change is about regression to a mean that is itself higher than the previous
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by mattcwilson 5y ago
Oh man - this was my position as well for a long time. And then I realized that you can’t even count on “high noon” meaning much at all, DST or not, because using solar noon is basically the same thing as having arbitrarily many timezones f

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