jeeringmole

I don't know this space well, but if I understood the SVForum EMTech talk I attended last week, that's what Ripple is doing.

https://ripple.com/

"Some Risk Model components sent information to the Optimizer in decimals while other components reported information in percentages; therefore the Optimizer had to convert the decimal information to percentages in order to effectively consider all the information on an equal footing. Because proper scaling did not occur, certain decimal information was not converted to percentages and the Optimizer did not give the intended weight to common factor risks."

And the impact: -- AXA Rosenberg had to make clients whole for $217 million in losses, plus pay a $25 million penalty. -- Barr Rosenberg had to pay a $2.5 million penalty and is barred from the securities industry for life. -- AXA Rosenberg's assets under management fell from $70 billion to $29 billion (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/business/ex-axa-rosenberg-...)

Exactly. For more details, go to the source: Carol Dweck. A good starting point is her popular book Mindset. (www.mindsetonline.com) There's also now online growth mindset instruction for middle school students (and older) -- see www.brainology.us.

The idea that writing an idea down reduces stress is one of the cornerstones of Dave Allen's Getting Things Done. He calls the unwritten items that nag at you "open loops". One important follow-on idea that that the ideas must be written down in a "trusted system": if you aren't absolutely confident that you will be able to find it when you go looking (or, better, that it will be brought to your attention when needed whether or not you remember to look at that moment), you won't stop worrying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done

hmmm... I just posted the link from the newsletter I received today (http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/h2fy11/62500-java-developer-news...) ... should have been paying attention better in November, I guess

Don't miss this gem:

UCF student Konstantin Ravvin told ABC News he thought UCF’s so-called cheating scandal had been blown out of proportion.

“This is college, everyone cheats. Everyone cheats in life in general,” Ravvin told ABC News. “I just think you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in this testing lab who hasn’t cheated on an exam. They’re making a witch hunt out of absolutely nothing, as if they want to teach us some sort of moral lesson.”

Hmmm....

Edsger Dijkstra described himself as a "humble programmer" in his Turing lecture (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EW...). Don Knuth categorizes his contributions in three groups: "As a researcher... As a university professor... And as a programmer..." (http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/bio.dvi). Joseph Weizenbaum's New York Times obituary headline called him a "Famed Programmer" (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/world/europe/13weizenbaum....). Tony Hoare's description of his work on implementing Algol includes this: "I eventually married Jill, the other programmer who came to work on the same project" (http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/3/21782-an-interview-with... -- ACM access required).

Maybe one day if I work very hard and am very lucky people will think I am a programmer, too.