Comments | hipnessmolecule: Theories of Competence - a (literally) sophomoric exercise

hipnessmolecule

Theories of Competence - a (literally) sophomoric exercise

Oct 06, 2005 23:15

Go back with me to the thrilling days of yesteryear, as I try to recapture the kind of thinking I used to exercise around the time I was a sophomore in college ( Read more... )

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The problem is... anonymous October 9 2005, 06:36:00 UTC

...there are an infinite number of theories like this. You can't test them all, so you have to select likely candidates for testing.

hmmm... hipnessmolecule October 9 2005, 06:37:18 UTC

Is the selection process an art?

Sometimes there's the possibility of deducing a theory from known facts, or at least eliminating a bunch of theories.

Borowitz hipnessmolecule October 14 2005, 20:30:44 UTC

I just got Borowitz's Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison and The Trillionaire Next Door The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading.

An excerpt from #2:

"I came to a creepy realization-I had fallen asleep in the middle of a trade. ...I noticed the truly weird thing...I had been trading in my sleep."

Re: Borowitz hipnessmolecule October 15 2005, 03:56:00 UTC

And his sleep trading made money, while his wakeful trading was losing money. Go figure.