01 December 2010

learning things

Some life lessons I think I want to share with you all. A very simple heuristic that may or may not help you out with your life.

Would you like to be real good at something(s)?

Want to know alot about alot of things and be good at alot of things?

You can't have both.

If you are trying to maximize F, where F is valuable skills, knowledge, ability, F only takes two arguments. Yes, you are maximizing over an unconstrained set of possible skills, knowledge, abilities, however F is only maximized when two of the arguments have coefficients that are greater than 0 (the set is constrained to values equal or greater than 0, having negative abilities is foolish no matter how bad of a chess player you are!). A rough reason why, is that F is not a linear function.

In summation, stop trying to be good at alot of things, and start being great at a couple things.

4 comments:

  1. this hypothesize is disproven by your own life!!

    you've proved that you are great and know a lot about:

    1) a*R*bitrage rebate
    2) making it *O*ut the hod
    3) *B*logging
    4) b*E*ing deisel
    5) spelling and g*R*ammer (en espanol)
    6) being *T*hrifty

    *do you see what i've done?*

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  2. what if F is complex? can we deconstruct the real and imaginary parts into the aforementioned variables, take the limit of the expression as $$$ goes to infinity, with the resulting answer being the letters R B O E R T, in no particular order?

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  3. (See definition of heuristic)

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