This is great. There are agencies that would pay a lot of money for something like this for their brands.
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All I am saying that is that there seems to be a huge leap between having taken the prerequisites everyone says you should take and then seeing Cramer-Rao bounds on page 70.
Kind of makes you wonder if that same line of the thought led to his scientific successes.
In my line of work, clients are more concerned about "out-vizzing" the competition by creating mind-blowing "Wow!" vizes. Doesn't this rule ggplot2 out for the most part?
Essentially,accordingly to Pressfield, those writers who identify strongly with problems the writer has in the article would do well to adopt a "hard hat" mentality of doing creative work; grab your lunch pale, sit in front of the computer and suffer, and don't worry about whether what you write is good or not-just do the damn work. 'Pretend' that you only write for money (you don't, but money is nice).
The problem for me and I think for the writer is identifying one's ego and with one's work. You start to worry you're not cut out, good enough, etc. But when you start thinking of creative endeavors like grabbing your lunch pail and heading off to the construction cite to put in a hard day's work, everything changes. It's kinda zen like in that way. Success or failure-the construction worker doesn't take it personally-he still has a beer at the end of the day and laughs with his family.
That's the way I see it anyway.
In this case, I guess pardon is not appropriate. I think the way we think of pardons at least in the US, is your first sentence, in which case Turing should definitely be pardoned.
"Well I only have so much RAM to do this task, but if increase my computer processing power through deliberate practice..."
I was a bit offhand, I admit. I was in a bad mood when I made that comment. But I stand by the fact people on HN take themselves and their capabilities way too seriously, without any thought to the fact, say, that the internet and programming are only a minuscule fraction of our history as intelligent lifeforms. While I love the internet/programming/topics discussed on HN, I just think that people here are too hard on themselves. You're not a computer with specs, you are the results of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
If someone is typing "sale on X product", they are probably not looking for the type of company with a version of X product that doesn't have the marketing budget to bid on google search-in other words, they are looking for a mr. coffee or a keurig, not a pristine, well engineered french press.