wry_durian

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by wry_durian 6d ago
I don't know which video it is either, but what I've found helpful is checking aerobic decoupling. If your heart rate is drifting upward significantly over the course of an hourlong easy run despite not increasing your pace or pow
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by wry_durian 5mo ago
I suspect there would be larger deltas due to improvements in nutrition and fueling. As another poster has mentioned, today's runners are ingesting so many more carbs per hour than 20 or 30 years ago. And if doping trends have changed
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by wry_durian 5mo ago
If "winning" the beer game means not overreacting to short-term signals, then you can view that as a form of slack. You're sometimes paying a bit extra to hold onto something that you have no immediate short-term use for.
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by wry_durian 5mo ago
That's exactly backwards. In the current regime, it's precisely the billions of people who are affected by data breaches (and who happen to be taxpayers!) who are footing the bill.
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by wry_durian 8mo ago
Note that this article is only about edits made through the Wiki Edu program, which partners with universities and academics to have students edit Wikipedia on course-related topics. It's not about Wikipedia writ large!
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by wry_durian 8mo ago
Indeed, I'm not seeing a "so what" here. LLMs make mental models cheap, but all models are wrong, and this one is too. The inclusion of Donalla Meadows' book and the quote from The Guns of August are particularly tenuo
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by wry_durian 1y ago
One intuition for the variability argument comes from binary search, where you learn the most when you eliminate half the possibilities. You can apply the same logic to your product development or testing strategy by intending to fail mor
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by wry_durian 1y ago
The book has a chapter about how to optimize variability in the product development process. The key idea is that variability is not inherently good nor bad, we just care about the economic cost of variability. There are lots of asymmetri
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by wry_durian 1y ago
Cycle time is imprtant, but three problems with it. First, it (like many other factors) is just a proxy variable in the total cost equation. Second, cycle time is a lagging indicator so it gives you limited foresight into the systemic contr
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by wry_durian 2y ago
It can very much so be a data breach for government to "have access to" other agencies' data. Check whether U.S.C. § 3552(b)(2) contains any exceptions or carve-outs for government agencies! One of the main points of privacy