hessenwolf

Joined 16 years ago

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Comment · 8 years ago
“Controlled”
Comment · 8 years ago
What’s the message?
Comment · 8 years ago
I might use that as my title for my partner case.

Automating (super dull financial industry department) is the industry of superstars

Comment · 8 years ago
Really good writing style. So much info in such short, simple sentences.
Comment · 8 years ago
Do I need to think of 260 different keys? Gonna take a while to practise that, and I feel like there is a separte mechanics processor to my core processing motor, so I can think and type at the same time; how do I make sure it’s the other one that brain-types?
Comment · 8 years ago
Having worked a bunch of years in finance, Excel has more impact than any other single tool.
Comment · 8 years ago
Yes - most papers just present one idea, as part of a field.

Although, the original paper of an idea, I often find, has the most human-readable explanation. Pearl's 1986 paper of Bayesian Networks, Gauss' 1800-whatever paper on the normal distribution, the original bitcoin/blockchain paper by that Japanese-sounding name, etc. They're still trying to sell the idea so they really need to talk to the idiots.

Comment · 8 years ago
The hammer that is still looking for a nail, since 1986.

Anyone seen one really be useful?

Comment · 8 years ago
Jira, trello, skype, a lot of bloody email,

Sharepoint, badly. Starting with confluence.

Comment · 8 years ago
Low in expectation. The site argued she just didn't expect it to be successful.

She seemed to agree.

Comment · 8 years ago
The Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse. It's supposedly about the author himself in 1920s Germany, also about depression, existentialism, and recovery, in a surreal context.

(hence, my user name)

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
I had the fortune to grow up simultaneously in a few variations of christianity. None of them dealt adequately with the argument why animals don't have souls, nor referred to the bible. It was just stated.

Also, none of the dealt with why a person who had never encountered the bible would go de facto to hell.

If we were really made in god's image, then he'd expect us to follow logic, thank you.

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