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making Sublime — for you and for me.
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making Sublime — for you and for me.
We optimize for proxy metrics, because we don’t have a more accurate way to measure goals. In education, we seem at best capable of measuring test scores, not actual aptitude. In media, we use time spent as a proxy for customer value.
All cognitive endeavors require new associations to be made, or old ones to be reviewed. There are marked differences between individuals in the speed with which associations are formed. Speed in the formation of associations is the foundation of individual differences in intelligence. Only a sub-sample of associations is relevant in a given proble
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