nobaelazum's comments

On: The Public Is Rapidly Turning Against AI, Polling ...

[nobaelazum]

Kind of like how we treat animals. That is pretty scary.

On: Ask HN: What's with this ridiculous experience req...

[nobaelazum]

Sorry, what? You hung up on an interviewer because they asked you to write an algorithm? And you think it's a red flag to ask you to turn on video? I think you need a reality check, honestly. I would say they are lucky not to hire you based on this.

On: I'm done with dashboards, and likely you should be...

[nobaelazum]

"I'm done with viewing my useful information."

[tamarlikesdata → nobaelazum]

Based on the comments here it looks like people are really attached to dashboards. I don't think dashboards are completely going away, but people are not using dashboards properly. There are too many dashboards in every org that no one uses. And definitely, we need something more interactive, that acts based on the end-goals that we need instead of drowning in charts.

[randomdata → nobaelazum]

If it is worth viewing, why not put it on the HUD? Relegating it to the dashboard suggests you don't find it all that useful.

On: The Life and Death of the American Mall

[nobaelazum]

Exactly right. The malls in Asia fit the lifestyle very well, being well integrated into the daily commute and easily accessible to so many within the community. These malls are some of the nicest places you can go and offer tons of restaurants options, boutiques etc that make each one feel unique. It's incredible how much better it is than what we have in the states IMO.

[julian_t → nobaelazum]

When working in Shanghai I had to go to an office in an outlying district, where the subway station was below a mall, and the way in and out of the subway was through a MacDonalds, walking past the queues waiting to order. The first time I went I was sure that couldn't be right, but it was.

On: I'm skeptical of low-code

[nobaelazum]

I agree. It isn't useful to think of "low code" or not. You think of what the tool offers and if it can be extended easily to do what you want. If you choose it and it isn't as advertised or doesn't fit, it was the wrong choice. We rely on all sorts of "low code" stuff and it works great because it's battle proven and provides the right abstractions. "Low code" is a misnomer, just say "esoteric specialized tool that isn't customizable".

On: Making the Monty Hall problem weirder but obvious

[nobaelazum]

Some explanations of this problem are far too complicated. This is how I explain it.

1/3 of the time, you guess correctly on your initial guess. If you switch, you'd be wrong.

2/3 of the time, you guess incorrectly on your initial guess. If you switch, you're right.

So when switching, the expecting outcome 1/3 of the time is 0, but the expected outcome 2/3 of the time 1. (1/3)0 + (2/3)1 = 2/3

[kgwgk → nobaelazum]

You have solved a different problem. You didn’t include in your a analysis the “he opens one of the other doors and there is a goat” bit.

The original problem is more complicated.

On: Bitcoin ‘More Than Just a Fad,’ Morgan Stanley CEO...

[nobaelazum]

I talk to these people all the time. Them: "I KMOW stock XXX is going to be at price YYY in time Z." Me: "How much have you invested in stock XXX?" Them: "Oh nothing yet".

[theklub → nobaelazum]

If you "invested" in bitcoin wouldn't you keep talking about how great it is?

[zxcmx → nobaelazum]

There's tons of folks on hn betting their shorts on bitcoin and way more exotic things, just that hopefully we can all afford to lose our, uh "investments" ;)