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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy « You Are Not So Smart

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Diego Zamboni
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Diego Zamboni
If you have a human brain, you do this all of the time. Picking out clusters of coincidence is a predictable malfunction of normal human logic.

We see patterns everywhere, our brain is hardwired to do it. Most of them are harmless or even beneficial. The problem is when people start assigning meaning to the patterns, as explanation of whatever they want to believe or to convince other people of (such as "vaccines cause autism", which is completely false).

The log: The lifeblood of your data pipeline - O'Reilly Radar

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via http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/the-log-the-lifeblood-of-your-data-pipeline.html Interesting article. I hadn’t heard of Fluentd, looks useful. The old paradigm — machines to humans, and the new — machines to machines. Image courtesy of Kiyoto Tamura. Over the last decade, the primary consumer of log data shifted from humans to machines. Software engineers still read logs, especially when their software behaves in an unexpected manner. However, in terms of “bytes processed,” humans account for a tiny fraction of the total consumption.

Whisky - Matt Gemmell

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via http://mattgemmell.com/whisky/ Nice essay.But then, finally, with one last branch hacked from your way, you set eyes upon it, and stand there. Silent and still. Perhaps you raise a hand, feeling time-worn stone beneath your fingertips. A dream, finally made solid. You’ve come so far, and now, at last, you’re here.