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Optimal Stopping
When you are hiring, scouting houses to buy, options to consider — when should you stop looking?
You stop looking too early, you don’t know if someone better isn’t going to come along. You stop too late, you might have passed on the best candidate already.
Mathematically — you should stop looking after evaluating 37% of all the options you’re willing to look at. After the 37% option — if anything/anyone comes along who is better than everyone else before you should make the decision.
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Overfitting
Too much information, options, and research are harmful.
There is wisdom in deliberately thinking less and settling for second-best solutions.
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Sorting
Sorting is one of the most fundamental problems that computers are solving for us
- Bubble sort + Insertion sort: when you put the book in alphabetically against a shelf of books, there is a billion different permutations and options
- Mergesort: when you compare two sets against e...
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Explore vs Exploit
When should you be exploring new options and when should you start settling for the best option you already know? Consider these concepts:
- Regret Minimisation Framework: When you look back on your life when you’re 80, what will you regret least?
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The right action can produce a bad outcome. Process is all we have control over, not results.
BRIAN CHRISTIAN, TOM GRIFFITHS
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Scheduling
Scheduling is a fundamental productivity problem.
School of thoughts:
- Getting Things Done: immediately do any task of two minutes or less once it comes to mind
- Eat that Frog: beginning with the most difficult task
- The Now ...
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Instead of thinking about only the next decision you will make, think about all of the decisions you are going to make about the same options in the future.
BRIAN CHRISTIAN, TOM GRIFFITHS
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Caching / Forgetting
Is a crucial part of computers, human memory, as well as organizing data or your papers on your desk.
- Random eviction: is not half bad, as the most important things keep getting back in
- First In, First Out (FIFO): it’s essentially a queue kicki...
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Seize The Interval
Seizing the day and seizing a lifetime are two entirely different endeavors.
When balancing favorite experiences and new ones, nothing matters more than the interval over which we plan to enjoy them. The interval makes the strategy.
By observing the strategy we can also infer...
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The Human Mind
The human mind does not run out of space, storage is unlimited, but the problem is one of organization. We have an infinite capacity for memories, but we have only a finite amount of time in which to search for them.
Researchers showed that by accumulat...
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The 37%
Mathematics dictates that you should take 37% of the time or options you have to simply look and after that, you should commit to the first option that is better than everything you’ve seen so far.
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When to quit
Set clear metrics that will help you to know when to give up on an idea, a habit, or a process. Don’t quit when the going gets rough.
Quit because it’s the right, objective and logical thing to do after weighing your options. Quit because you have a better option and don’t want to waste...
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