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- drc500free parentMakes me wonder which team is responsible for that feature generating query, and if they follow full engineering level QA. It might be deferred to an MLE team that is better than the data scientists but less rigorous than software needs to be.
- I seem to be the only person here who prefers the author’s approach!
The combination of adhd and colorblindness seems to make most multicolor displays just visual snow to me. It’s like looking at one of those magic eye pictures. I struggle with foreground/background in both vision and hearing, and it took quite a long time to realize others don’t process like that.
- That's not 50% success rate at completing the task, that's the win rate of a head-to-head comparison of an algorithm and an expert. 50% means the expert and the algorithm each "win" half the time.
- What a bizarre reaction to a completely standard marketing segment. Who does the author THINK is Monster Energy Drink's core customer?
- The part where Gen-X is younger, maybe?
- It makes solely due impost.
- Israel / Palestine is a collision between two internally valid and mutually exclusive worldviews. It's kind of a given that there will be two camps who consider the other non-reputable.
FWIW, the /r/AskHistorians booklist is pretty helpful.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/middleeast...
- I don’t think agreeing with a neo-nazi about the foundational tenets of nazism is a good use of that idiom. It’s supposed to be for things like “pickles on pizza are actually pretty good” not “we are all slaves to the Jews who control society.”
- That’s not “unknown”, that’s an antisemitic quote from neo-nazi Kevin Alfred Strom.
- The wrong statement is saying P(no real effect) < 5%
The correct statement is saying P(saw these results | no real effect) < 5%
Consider two extremes, for the same 5% threshold:
1) All of their ideas for experiments are idiotic. Every single experiment is for something that simply would never work in real life. 5% of those experiments pass the threshold and 0% of them are valid ideas.
2) All of their ideas are brilliant. Every single experiment is for something that is a perfect way to capture user needs and get them to pay more money. 100% of those experiments pass the threshold and 100% of them are valid ideas.
(P scores don't actually tell you how many VALID experiments will fail, so let's just say they all pass).
This is so incredibly common in forensics that it's called the "prosecutor's fallacy."
- I had him as a lecturer in undergrad, and I still remember the weightlessness of his intellect. It was one thing to realize that we were the same age, but his ability to flit around different concepts was remarkable.
There were a lot of people around who felt like high performance athletes of the mind, while he was just this sort of effortless butterfly going from flower to flower.
- Is there a difference between a clone and an identical twin (other than sharing a womb)?
- Is this because we can essentially treat each dimension like a binary digit, so we get 2^n directions we can encode? Or am I barking up totally the wrong tree?
- Agile was supposed to empower teams, but in many orgs it's done the opposite. Execs take over product, so PMs make system design calls. Engineers are left coordinating tickets they no longer own.
This piece explores how “senior” roles in engineering have been hollowed out, and why AI might accelerate the collapse of this broken hierarchy.
- Thanks for the feedback - I've cleaned up the ending a lot to hopefully not read like buzzword bingo.
- The history is right, my predictions are probably garbage.
Kind of similar to Marx himself, I guess.
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- I'm trying to understand this comment. Are you saying that Dahl's antisemitism is ameliorated by the fact that Israel attacked the PLO in Lebanon? And are you claiming that journalists have written more about Roald Dahl's antisemitism than about Israel's treatment of the Palestinians?
I'd like to read what you're saying in the most graceful way possible, but it really sounds like standard antisemitic beliefs about how it's really the Jews' fault that people are antisemitic, and that they control the media anyway.
- Absolutely, and in practice it's not a well analyzed spreadsheet problem with a smooth transition. The change in interest rates moved necessary payoffs from the "later" bucket to the "soon" bucket.
A whole segment of product stories only worked when investors wanted to believe in them so that they could park their money there. With everything oversubscribed, products would get investment as long as success wasn't provably impossible - so CEOs and PMs optimized for inscrutability and constant pivots. More thoughts here:
https://coldwaters.substack.com/p/the-mystery-box-is-out-of-...
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- I'm not sure how one would get "AI-Enhanced Professional Writing" without feeding it into an LLM. This isn't underhanded, it's literally the product being offered.
- Unfortunately, I've found a negative correlation between CV creativity and candidate quality.
I've got various theories as to why, but in my experience most people with non-standard resumes have turned out to be weaker candidates than people who just type their stuff into a standard template with something approaching the STAR format.
- TBH, it doesn't look like it's spurring much discussion about the engineering ethics angle.
- I'm certainly disappointed that none of the discussion is touching on the culpability of technical teams in building these systems.
I'm still struggling with my desire to surprise people with the conclusion instead of including it at the front of the piece. Which tends to lead to people discussing the setup rather than the punchline.
- Hey folks. I know this one is a touchy subject. It is in no way intended to pile on those who are gleefully mocking a murder, and I should have probably included the subtitle ("Towards Ethical Data Science").
Rather, it's an encouragement for people who are paid to build software and data systems that shape people's lives to take a moment to reflect on that impact.
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- I've recently been working with a lot of service center productivity data. Staff productivity (customers/hour) is pretty close to a gaussian, with some skew towards many slight underperformers and few overperformers.
However, any single customer interaction is exponential or weibull distributed.
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