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Encouraging tactile learning
Go Build Tennessee Video clip Watching this boy work skillfully is beautiful.https://lnkd.in/gWRjDR_n What could be better than building, in the sand, near the water, improving something, honing a skill and having a product that garners respect and admiration? It’s not easy to find ways to chunk up tasks to align with kids abilities and encourage…
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What is the opposite of robust?
I like the word brittle, but I don’t think this is an antonym in the tech industry. I asked this question on LinkedIn and Chris Jackson provided an entire taxonomy of broken processes: Unfortunately I think I’ve been exposed or involved in every type of “anti” robust data system. Measuring brittle: Image credit for plate
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Surrounded by Idiots
Personality Colors 🖖🏼 Richad Nieves-Becker remember when you asked “what color am I?”I laughed and thought of fantasy novels and science fiction and “what color is aura”, but then this morning I saw this consulting service “Surrounded by Idiots”. Personality typing has gotten traction in call centers, using NLP and sentiment analysis to match callers to…
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Partial automation is better than none!
Using Power Query to append web data I recently used this process with a client to extract KPI data from one of their web systems and create reporting. Its a workable process any company with Microsoft Excel and a shared data folder can implement to take a lot of manual steps out of reporting.
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My dream gig
Criteria for the ultimate work experience according to me 1) Collaborate with smart, motivated people who are generous with their knowledge and willing to consider alternative view points. There are probably 8-10 people I would work on any project they asked because I respect them and I know it would improve my well-being to be…
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Endowed Progress Effect
Psychology of Pricing I have been talking to a service industry company recently about a study I had heard of where a gas station gave out punch cards where you could earn a free carwash after 10 fill ups. The gas station “pre-punched” some of rewards cards which gave customers a sense that they had…
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The 3 levels “why”
Curiosity of children I love this image from Roberto Ferraro It would be maddening if executives asked questions the way my 3 year old does, but imagining that they will (or allowing yourself to do so) can drive surprising clarity. You eventually fall back to answering “because I said so”, but the more times you…
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What categories are getting more expensive?
Education and Health Care – necessities This data Viz shows how distinctively anything optional luxury (TV) is getting slightly cheaper and the absolute essentials (healthcare and education) are much less affordable than 20 years ago. It’s a great Viz but a disheartening truth. The greatest assault on middle-class America’s prosperity may be the relentless, four-decade-long…
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Grid Search
Its here, somewhere Grid Search is a brute force method in computer science which considers EVERY POSSIBLE combination of hyper parameters to find the best model.Today I started my day by retracing some of yesterday’s akin to a random search, but then progressed to a very literal Grid Search of our neighborhood and house as…
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Calibrated Confidence
Working with insufficient data One of the many ways standardized tests differ from “real life” is that option “E – Not enough information” is usually not a realistic answer. I was at the Everyday AI conference hosted by Dataiku on Weds and one of the panel speakers, Bruno Aziza, said that the biggest factor in the future of…
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