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Being OK with not being extraordinary

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Re: Being OK with not being extraordinary

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Post by coldtea »

mattmanser wrote: post #389
coldtea wrote: post #385

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Was it the inherent quality (or lack thereof of the book) of mere resistance to counter opinions and certainty that "this can't be any good since it's ideologically opposite" though?

No, I am genuinely interested on the opposing take, but as far as I remember he was just babbling some ridiculous thing over and over. It didn't make any intellectual sense, whether you're right-wing/left-wing, populist/liberal.

To be frank, I find his arguments a little flaky and hand-wavy, of the "self-help guru" variety, but there's usually some interesting perspective or tidbit there that I wouldn't have thought otherwise...

Re: Being OK with not being extraordinary

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Post by gloatyegret »

phkahler wrote: post #386
gloatyegret wrote: post #324

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> Almost all CS people learn a good bit of statistics as part of their education > The crux behind the idea of being better than average at two things makes you individually extraordinary is that the two skills are not correlated. I don't know if "almost all CS people" come from better schools than mine, but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. Having good statist…

>> but I've never had a proper statistics course, and my degree has a "data science" stamp on it. How do they justify that? ML is not IMHO the same thing, but maybe times are changing?

I've given up trying to understand. The school focuses heavily on software development, and they don't seem willing to change the curriculum too drastically to make room for a good data science track. But they want to have one anyway...

I wondered if my degree was an exception.

Re: Being OK with not being extraordinary

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Post by pc86 »

fancyfish wrote: post #323
AQuantized wrote: post #224

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Disagree totally with this. My psychometric IQ has been stable for a long time, yet my problem solving ability has increased significantly. Some ways to modulate it might be reading material such as George Polya's "How to Solve It," taking your own notes on heuristics and techniques you've found useful and continuously reapplying and iterating them, and simply delving deep into many hard problems (be they directly co…

Agreed. Problem solving is a skill separate from IQ and unlike IQ it can be developed over time. If you want to level up your problem solving skill, carry around a small notebook and pay attention to the problems you see in other people, or in the office, in public, or in yourself. Write down the problem and its cause, continually drilling down into root causes. Then make a graph of problems and root causes, with dir…

Interesting that you are you self-aware you can tell the difference between a 6% and a 9% increase is something as nebulous as "problem solving ability."

Edit: Oh, the account is nothing but troll comments. Nevermind.

Re: Being OK with not being extraordinary

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Post by entropicdrifter »

rimjongun wrote: post #247
entropicdrifter wrote: post #152

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I mean... https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams#Views_on_science_a... The guy has a ton of crank views

So a link to rational wiki, a massively biased website with a far left agenda... As your response to somebody bringing up Scott’s reasoning on things. Weak sauce. That’s added nothing to the discussion of Scott Adam’s talents, hubris, ego, or cold logic skills.

Media Bias/Fact Check labels their factual reporting as "High" despite a Left-Center bias rating:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rationalwiki/

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