natureboy21
Re:The Righteousness Fix
on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:39AM (#29891904)
"See we’re always doing that. We're always finding a way to be one up. And by the most incredibly subtle means. So you see when you see me and you say I realize I’m always doing that tell me how do I not do that. I say why do you want to know? I’ll be better that way...yeah but why do you want to be better. You see the reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t."
-Alan Watts circa 1965
Prophetic words.
Re:Engineers should invest in decision-making skills early
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:21AM (#29725572)
Whole heartedly agree. One metaphor I love is that a Ford Focus wins the race against a Ferrari every time if the Ford Focus has a better navigation system. If my goal is to go 1 mile due north but my compass points me due south I'm gonna spend all my time going around the whole globe. Prudence makes you more successful and your life easier.
Say what you will about his snake oiliness but I got that from Tai Lopez and he's right. Prudence is a key skill and may trump almost every other skill.
Re:Potemkin Data Science (2020)
on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:59AM (#27288856)
Overall pretty great points. I have been inside a Fortune 100 company that had a totally backward Data Science team that was running to crazy levels of complexity with no known goal in sight.
One thing that is worth pointing out is that the deficiency in identifying goals before running after impressive technological complexity as a status symbol is not restricted to just Data Science. I see it all the time with technologies like "Bluetooth". Let's put Bluetooth in everything. We don't know why but it seems impressive so let's just do it.
Re:YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else? [video]
on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:28PM (#26145539)
Because regulations are primarily about protecting the status quo in an industry and best case only distantly secondarily about protecting consumers
Re:U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange
on Saturday May 11, 2019 @07:50AM (#19885713)
Having been exposed to the shell games that go on at a large corporation, I think this could be really good.
If this is actually executed properly, I think this could be a good exchange for more than just tech start ups.
Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#19720939)
If it wasn’t already, the docs and the code should be copyrighted. It costs nothing and should be relatively easy to litigate in the case of copy pastage lol