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Re:YC: The new grad school by VaedaStrike on Friday April 15, 2011 @01:17AM (#2449516)
"After you know some history, you can tell because biases causes their owners to make mistakes."

The catch--

"History is a set of lies agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte

The whole "after you know some history" demands a framework of a macrocosm to which one must depend entirely upon second-hand, at best, accounts. The glue that holds it all together is so tied to so many handles for bias both at the hands of the proxy observers as well as within the very bonding agents in the mind of the aggregator that the whole enterprise is rife with corruptive feedback potential that the anomalies that can be conclusively nailed as bona fide mistakes tend to be, for the most part, minimally useful for bias detection that tells you something you didn't already have a rather high certainty of.

Re:YC: The new grad school by apu on Friday April 15, 2011 @01:32AM (#2449543)
The glue that holds it all together is so tied to so many handles for bias both at the hands of the proxy observers as well as within the very bonding agents in the mind of the aggregator that the whole enterprise is rife with corruptive feedback potential that the anomalies that can be conclusively nailed as bona fide mistakes tend to be, for the most part, minimally useful for bias detection that tells you something you didn't already have a rather high certainty of.

wat.

Seriously, it took me something like 4 minutes to understand what you wrote there. Maybe I'm just tired.

Re:YC: The new grad school by VaedaStrike on Friday April 15, 2011 @09:57PM (#2452952)
No. I was tired. Hence my failure to properly punctuate and clearly enunciate.

My apologies, to all.

Re:YC: The new grad school by abbasmehdi on Friday April 15, 2011 @03:10AM (#2449723)
You're not tired.