hessenwolf

7 ms·

1.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
“Controlled”
2.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
What’s the message?
3.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
I might use that as my title for my partner case. Automating (super dull financial industry department) is the industry of superstars
4.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Really good writing style. So much info in such short, simple sentences.
5.
by hessenwolf 8y 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 o
6.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Having worked a bunch of years in finance, Excel has more impact than any other single tool.
7.
by hessenwolf 8y 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 th
8.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
The hammer that is still looking for a nail, since 1986. Anyone seen one really be useful?
9.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Jira, trello, skype, a lot of bloody email, Sharepoint, badly. Starting with confluence.
10.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Low in expectation. The site argued she just didn't expect it to be successful. She seemed to agree.
11.
by hessenwolf 8y 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)
12.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peig_Sayers#Peig
13.
by hessenwolf 8y 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
14.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Eighths are pretty nice in decimal..
15.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
So rich, and sounds like a racket.
16.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
I remember my maths teacher teaching that in 1995. He was pretty good at explaining it, but not as good as this video. We should really be seeing a great education dividend from the availability of material these days.
17.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
I just used it to consult with a young woman who cancelled her open heart surgery today, which gives her two years to live. The result was low expectancy, and the advice is indeed helpful.
18.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
The English language versus the German language is like data scientists versus actuaries. English had no quality control; the oxford still uses adverbs but ignores ye for plural second person, and they for third person singular, but who fuc
19.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
For polishing and drilling marble, for example. Not for polishing diamonds. The diamonds are different qualities.
20.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Nah, you need all sorts of quality grades for drilling, polishing, etc.
21.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
The inventors of synthetic diamonds at General Electric didn't receive anything other than their normal wage (perhaps a little bonus, I don't remember).
22.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
It makes no sense from a capital perspective. The software provider would need to hold risk capital (money in the back pocket) like a bank or insurance company, but in proportion to the revenues of the companies they sell the software to, n
23.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
But American service is very arse-licking, no? The tip culture means that every waitstaff is smiling and flirting with you. I miss German, "fuck you, give me your order", wait service.
24.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
House is public information at city hall. Phone is not.
25.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Those auto-summary bots on reddit are suddenly a hot commodity.
26.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Utmost care needs to be documented.
27.
by hessenwolf 8y ago
Data collection is also part of the regulations; only collecting the data they need. Tracking data they do not even use seems to me to be a clear violation.
28.
by hessenwolf 11y ago
But isn't advertising spending increasing?
29.
by hessenwolf 11y ago
How does a specific software offerer like Neo4j diversify it's service offering? Should it?
30.
by hessenwolf 11y ago
Hypothesis: It turned out that a lot of people did not want to pay for news. They wanted to pay for entertainment. Newspapers had a distribution monopoly, and chose what the users wanted to receive. Now that the monopoly is broken, other pa

More ›