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A Mo­tor­cy­cle (and Cal­ibra­tion?) Accident

How to not talk about prob­a­bil­ity estimates

• boggler 19 Mar 2018 19:28 UTC

  5 points

  in reply to: alkjash’s comment on: A Mo­tor­cy­cle (and Cal­ibra­tion?) Accident

  I love the Chinese saying!

  And your point is interesting. I believe my desire to ride a motorcycle stems from the motorcycle being seen as a cultural symbol of badassity as opposed from the inherent danger of riding a motorcycle. And, while badassity may coincide with danger, the two need not be correlated.

  For example, I view skydiving as a symbol of badassity, but skydiving in relation to driving an automobile (generally not very badass) is quite safe.

  I wonder if I am unusual in this respect, and perhaps it is more common to be attracted to motorcycling precisely because of the danger.

• boggler 18 Mar 2018 22:27 UTC

  3 points

  on: bog­gler’s Short­form Feed

  Noting: I feel trepidation towards testing my code. I believe this is because I suspect that my code has bugs and bugs are equated to debugging (i.e. work). Yet, once I get over my trepidation and test my code with all the supplied test cases, I become giddy and want to test everything. I believe this is because I feel that my code is free of bugs and every test is then a testament to what I’ve created. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

• boggler 22 Mar 2018 15:45 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: gjm’s comment on: A Mo­tor­cy­cle (and Cal­ibra­tion?) Accident

  Yes! This is what I was gesturing towards. I agree with this.

• boggler 20 Mar 2018 13:10 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Qiaochu_Yuan’s comment on: A Mo­tor­cy­cle (and Cal­ibra­tion?) Accident

  This is really cool! Thank you for sharing. I think micromorts will significantly help my intuition.

• boggler 20 Mar 2018 13:04 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Qiaochu_Yuan’s comment on: A Mo­tor­cy­cle (and Cal­ibra­tion?) Accident

  At least with regards to my own notions of “badass,” I think this is only sometimes true. I do not think it is considered badass to watch a horror film, yet there is substantial S1 perceived risk.

• boggler 19 Mar 2018 1:56 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: PeterBorah’s comment on: bog­gler’s Short­form Feed

  Although, I haven’t explicitly done test-first programming, it appears as though it could be a great way to remove the trepidation. I do, however, often work on problem sets for school which come with pre-written tests, and I find myself mildly anxious before I run those tests on my code. Perhaps, the problem here is that I have internalized that code is “done” when the last line is written, as opposed to the test-first paradigm where “done” necessitates passing all the tests.

  How do you feel in that space between completing your last line of code and running your first test?