Tweet Peter Drucker: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
Archive for October, 2009
pro•cras•ti•na•tion
By dario in Time managementTweet Procrastination, the mother of all productivity sins (or virtues), is the theme of this infographic video by John Kelly. (via Information Aesthetics and Cool Infographics).
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AutoVer (windows) gives you easy versioning
By jose in Reading, Software, Versioning, WritingTweet About two years ago we talked about filehamster. It was free, unobtrusive, and simpler than doing version control ‘by hand’ (adding numbers to filenames) or ‘by machine’ (using a proper versioning tool such as subversion or mercurial). Well, since then filehamster has moved on to be a pain in the ass. Now the free [...]
What’s Wrong with Probability Notation?
By jose in Opinion, Reading, WritingTweet Sometimes I wonder why many humans (me included) have trouble understanding probability. In cognitive science, probabilistic models are taking over most areas. Still, most people struggle with them. Could it be that the notation is just hard to swallow? What’s Wrong with Probability Notation? is a magnificent post that gives some basic reasons: The [...]