Re:Announcement: YC alumni will help us read applications
by bravura on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @04:49PM
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Everyone has biases. Theorems in machine learning show that you cannot generalize to new circumstance without bias.
"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room." --William Hazlitt
tianaco is just saying that she worries that YC alumni will have the wrong bias when confronted with certain applicants of broad experience outside what they expect. Let's hope that she is wrong.
tianaco is just saying that she worries that YC alumni will have the wrong bias when confronted with certain applicants of broad experience outside what they expect. Let's hope that she is wrong.