Scott Fryxell

pin prick

July 16, 2022

Testing correctly slows you down. It slows you down so much that Scientists spend entire careers focusing and validating and peer reviewing and questioning tiny silos around small questions just to open up a pin prick of light on reality.

We can't be that disciplined in all things — too many epics reduce your accuracy, but we should be disciplined in a few; if only to find out how much work it takes to know for certain any one thing.

It's humbling.

An epic is each run of data through the machine while you are training it to make acurate guesses — eventually your accuracy starts droping. too much time in the club.