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There's a great runbook to successfully manage big projects!
Signup here for the newsletter to get the weekly digest right into your inbox. Find the 9 highlighted links of weeklyfoo #77: by Ben Kuhn An attempt to describe my playbook for when Iβm being intense about project management. π Read it!, projects, engineering by thymer.com An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about.
Cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion
People sometimes ask us whether Wave uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. An important part of the cryptocurrency narrative is that it can help financial inclusion—after all, it’s a way to put your money on a computer, with no legacy banks or regulators acting as gatekeepers. Surely that’s what we need, right? Unfortunately, in reality, cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion.
Cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion
Ben Kuhn on March 30, 2022 People sometimes ask us whether Wave uses cryptocurrency or blockchain technology. An important part of the cryptocurrency narrative is that it can help financial inclusion—after all, it’s a way to put your money on a computer, with no legacy banks or regulators acting as gatekeepers. Surely that’s what we need, right? Unfortunately, in reality, cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion.
Working at Wave is an extremely effective way to improve the world
Ben Kuhn on July 8, 2021 My favorite thing about working at Wave is knowing that what we’re building makes a massive, tangible improvement to the lives of millions of people. This matters to me for a few reasons: It pushes me to do my best work. When I know that what I’m working on is going to be useful to lots of people, it makes it easy to focus on what’s important, and to stay determined when things aren’t going well. It means we’re all in this together.
Mean vs. Standard deviation for data ranging between 0 and 1
If e.g. 100 people can rate a subject between 0 and 1 than the dispersion (e.g. standard deviation) among the 100 raters is potentially largest for a mean of 0.5 (50 people rate 0, 50 people rate 1) while it is smallest (actually 0) at both extremes (i.e. when the mean is 0 or 1). The relation between the mean (ranging from 0 to 1) and the associated standard deviation (ranging from 0 to 0.5) follows a bell shaped curve.
Finding quality of fit for two discrete variables with low statistics
I have data from an experiment which I am trying to explain using a model. I do not have an analytic formula for the prediction of the model but instead I got its prediction through a simulation. The results look something like this (this here is fictional data but hopefully you get the idea): where the different bins are independent. I'd like to quantify how good the model fits to the data. Chi-squared appears to be the perfect measure if it weren't for the low statistics.
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