Andy_G11

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by Andy_G11 3y ago
Just curious - have any investors pulled out of an investment because one or more of the most senior / talented employees of a firm has left to found their own or to join a competitor? One employer I worked with had pretty much grown a
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by Andy_G11 3y ago
Just living a modern urbanised life seems to be enough to drive humanity towards apocalypse within a few decades. Is that the case? If so, then I expect humanity to behave as it always does - with both good and bad elements of behaviour on
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by Andy_G11 3y ago
What are the tool available to interspecies negotiators - stick / carrot diplomacy? Unfortunately the risks for anyone in control of budget to find solutions to these types of problems make brute force solutions seem quite palatable. F
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by Andy_G11 3y ago
Shawshank Redemption has a great line: 'Get busy living, or get busy dying.' Act - even taking a walk can make a difference.
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Inspirational to hear about people who defy the odds to live larger than life dreams. I wonder if they were less rare before the 1900s - maybe I just don't meet the types of people whom I would put in the same bracket as von Berliching
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
It would be great if it was possible to make it easier to assess unscrupulous behaviour by medical professionals and to weed out bad actors whilst simultaneously screening out damaging but unjustified claims about them made by patients or d
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Interesting video here of one of the San people running down a Kudu which collapses from exhaustion after an 8 hour chase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o . Hard to compare this to Sorokin because the hunter is r
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
It makes sense that machine learning would be applied to personality types to correlate them against things like financial performance, level or field of education, personal health, etc. Here is one example of a data gathering exercise carr
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Thanks for your response - I was curious if AI and tech might be able to bridge from a suitably detailed statistical picture to (at least some) cases of underlying deterministic behaviour, perhaps in a way (or ways) that might surprise us.
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Thanks for your response. I did chemistry and physics and uni (almost 30 years ago now) and I remember how complex some of the computer modelling that was done at the time was (even for very simple things - I think we looked at a model of w
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Seems pretty straightforward to me: 1) programming objects have properties and methods; 2) within cells it is probably possible to have analagous entities (perhaps various types such as molecules, organelles, etc) which have defined propert
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
What don't you understand?
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
I wonder if we could get AI to code biological outcomes using biomolecular objects (as in object oriented programming), and what level of computing technology / how comprehensive a database of biochemical reactions would be needed to d
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
Interesting - could really help some people who do not have a fixed address. Great to see that an employment services firm, Reed in Partnership, is one of the partners who will be used to validate the candidate's authenticity - it can
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by Andy_G11 4y ago
If the actual bid is not going to go your way no matter what, and if possible, just advertise subsidiary products which might be bolt-ons to other projects that the customer may want. That way, you give the sham process a veneer of respecta
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Climate change and associated socio-economic / political upheaval, ICE vs EVs, pandemics, and space colonisation are some of the headline points I picked up on in the article. But there are so many other things going on, too: 1. The ag
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
JRR Tolkien by Humphrey Carpenter. Author of Lord of The Rings and Oxford professor. Fascinating to get a broader idea of the person behind the fantasy world and to learn more of his passion for languages and nature and his friendships with
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
It is tricky being in a community which is predominantly more moneyed than your family and burns a brand into poorer people that never goes away. Greasers and socs stay greasers and socs into their 90s, and then they die.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
It would allow career diversification, though. Maybe there's a bit part going in Sly Stallone's 'Expendables 3194'?
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Sometimes I sit and think; sometimes I just sit.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Really have to object to manuals of this kind - the B_INFINITE_TIMEOUT() function - see the miscellaneous functions link at the top of the page - seems to have been adopted by too many automated call centres.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Relentless, critical implementation of individual performance testing (e.g. football teams) might help shift organisational sclerosis. How can this be done for white collar roles? Maybe like Amazon? - See this article : https://c
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
This is not a planning problem - this is a power problem. If competent and incompetent people alike are told to regard each other as peers in a meritocracy, a range of possible outcomes ensues. The only option for incompetent staff will be
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Great, well-written article. Interesting how mathematicians simplify the the number system to test theories. In Fermat's Last Theorem, the author describes Andrew Wile using the same tool of a reduced set of numbers cycling as if on a
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Interesting. 1,250 students surveyed and of those 437 were male, 813 female (if I have done my simultaneous equation correctly). Why the discrepancy? - Are white males currently less represented than white females on the surveyed campuses i
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
This is a great question. The Internet to me does seem to have settled on an equilibrium level of variety which is quite narrow and perhaps to some degree stagnant, whereas in the past it seemed to represent a universe of more opportunity.
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Smart people with ideas know that that uploading fledgling, unrealised ideas into the world can mean feeding their baby into a meat grinder of criticism, scepticism, plagiarism and probably some other -isms. E.g., Andrew Wile had some prett
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
The consulting / building combo is a good way to keep earning moderately well while trying to build a new co. Building revenue generation is not easy. If you're going all-in on the build, there may well come a point where if your
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
I am sure that the abuse stopped him from rising to the top - a key requirement for an elevator operator. Sadly, his victory will no doubt lead to fewer low paid roles in big firms as CEOs will not like it that even the littlest man or woma
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by Andy_G11 5y ago
Thank goodness for people like this person - I would not be surprised if many firms would do as well, if not better and with improved internal culture, if promotion was done simply by random selection of candidates in the different role cat

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