I had recently started going to a new specialist gym that runs 3 classes per day during the working week and is closed the rest of the time. I’ve been at a few different times on a few different days, and already I was seeing many of the same people from the first class. It

Not all data are created equal. But how much information is any piece of data likely to contain? This question is central to medical testing, designing scientific experiments, and even to everyday human learning and thinking. MIT researchers have developed a new way to solve this problem, opening up new applications in medicine, scientific discovery,…

(Note: Lightly edited and adapted from a twitter thread, where I’m @GeePawHill. Noobs be advised, I speak freely there.) Accuracy in estimating software development times is a powerful example of forty years of “try harder” not producing any positive results. Now, given some small change X and some substantial knowledge of the current state of…