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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Short of something structured, any format that captures key assumptions and intentions is good. The problem we are solving is X. The "pre-mortem" is the idea is that if we fail, it would be because of Y. Then in your design or dec
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from [0]: Each event is assigned a “Life Change Unit” score. These are then added together over a year and used to predict your risk of illness. So, it's a scale on a predictor of health impacts, vs say a measure of intensity.
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EKS... https://aws.amazon.com/eks/getting-started/
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I don't understand why vC's would think this way: "While this is a lower margin business than software’s traditional 90%, we expected to be able to get to a 50% margin in time. It took me way too long to realize that VCs woul
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
"Attitude" would be dedicating your work to satisfying the desire of the customer. "Knowledge" would be your ability to economically execute on that. "Luck", good or at least not bad, and "wealth", en
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
From the paper's definitions, "predictable" or "unpredictable" is from the POV of an agent whose action will probably cause some effect (predictable) or might cause some effect (unpredictable). The affected lives a
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The paper is also available at https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lipsitch_et_al-2... After a skim, I will say I don't understand why predictable or unpredictable does not explicitly address variance
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
I would look to some respected third parties in order to present and test your respective business bets. Maybe that would help each of you reassess risks and returns. What do your judges think the potential is for each? Six programmer month
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
“Let me make cars. You stick to making tractors.” - Enzo Ferrari to Ferruccio Lamborghini. That's got to be an all time top 10 customer support fail. But, after that, it's how many owners for Lamborghini the car company, until AUD
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
"Code has mass". Following from that, attention is force and understanding is acceleration.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
I look forward to reading the completed post, I think there is a lot of good stuff in the draft. What I noticed from the draft: There's nothing obvious about Google per se, in terms of the material. It could be company X you've be
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
"The Supreme Court is, no doubt, the nation’s most powerful court. But the 5th Circuit, the federal appeals court that covers Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, is staking out a claim to be the most dangerous — the least wedded to respe
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
It looks like the use case is specifying types for dataflow operators (aka endpoints for dataflow pipes) [0] and I surmise composition should be super easy. I was surprised not to see any mention of XML or XML Schema as prior art, especiall
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Is code reading a use case for GPT-2 text summarization? The examples I see are text to text or code to code. I am wondering what code to text could be like.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The underlying "team topologies" idea [0] as I interpret it: Any work function evaluates to return a work product; one team's work product is another team's input to its function; the work plan for the organization looks
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The customer's problems are different in the different roles, and the work and the rewards differ because of that. What that looks like here is that the customer of the Line engineer is external and the customer of the Staff engineer i
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
repo is here: https://github.com/AdesholaAfolabi/slik_python_package Choices one makes in data prep can be material with respect to interpretation. It would be nice to be able to get a data quality report which I could
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This puzzled me: "Projects need multi-team cooperation to succeed, so you have to do a lot of work up front to get everybody pulling together. But it makes projects fragile." The suggestion is that teams are atomic, that projects
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
This page is very nicely presented and was a pleasure to read. "Automatic differentiation, on the other hand, is a solution to the problem of calculating derivatives without the downfalls of symbolic differentiation and finite differen
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Using Steve McConnell's terms, I think of things playing out as Plan, then Estimate, then discuss the Target, and then cut features before Committment. Having multiple people independently estimate a given problem is a more robust way
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I wonder what a correspondence between Anthony Bourdain and David Foster Wallace would have been like. My impression is that they were pulling water from the same well.
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
Innovation here is higher-risk product discovery - the design of new mechanisms to extract value with low assurance that things will actually work well. The emphasis here is that managing innovation is explicitly about managing risk - metho
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The announcement was not clear to me as to whether they would drop information from their Common Data Set reports, https://ir.princeton.edu/other-university-data/common-data-s... , or simply not promote it themselves. A
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
From the chart, Netflix has a lot of titles, relative to the other channels. I would think they could lean hard on recommending titles to niche audiences - getting viewer returns from titles in the long tail of popularity. But, my experienc
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The idea is that the bidder's precision signals confidence, and that low confidence signals amenability to negotiation, and that negotiation leads to poorer outcomes for the bidder. The HBS paper they cite on M&A [0] is most intere
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It's that the active constraint is understanding.
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The Women in Data Science conferences, https://www.widsconference.org/ , have a lot of really engaging talks.
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One could look at HEART as an alternative for UX metrics: https://research.google/pubs/pub36299/ HEART = Happiness, Engagement, Adoption, Retention, Task success
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by troelsSteegin 4y ago
The suggestion is to look at Web Components. I would think, too, to look at orchestration (composition of dataflows). As a substrate, Yahoo Pipes remains an inspiration in that way.
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The video links to an overview of the backing research program, https://medium.com/swlh/neurosymbolic-ai-to-give-us-machines... , and from there I would look at the MIT site: https://mitibmwatsonailab.mit.e

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