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The document discusses various cognitive biases that can negatively impact decision making. It describes biases like projection bias, where people overestimate how much their future preferences will align with their current preferences. It also mentions irrational escalation, where people justify increasing investment in a decision based on prior investments despite new evidence the decision was wrong. Additionally, it defines the omission bias as judging harmful actions as worse than equally harmful inactions, and the bias blind spot as seeing oneself as less biased than others.
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management platform for VSEs and SMEs. The financing round was led by investors Breega, Y Combinator, and FCVC.
UI5con 2024 - Boost Your Development Experience with UI5 Tooling Extensions
The UI5 tooling is the development and build tooling of UI5. It is built in a modular and extensible way so that it can be easily extended by your needs. This session will showcase various tooling extensions which can boost your development experience by far so that you can really work offline, transpile your code in your project to use even newer versions of EcmaScript (than 2022 which is supported right now by the UI5 tooling), consume any npm package of your choice in your project, using different kind of proxies, and even stitching UI5 projects during development together to mimic your target environment.
Fundamentals of Programming and Language Processors
Fundamentals of Programming and Language Processors
J-Spring 2024 - Going serverless with Quarkus, GraalVM native images and AWS ...
Presented at NLJUG's J-Spring 2024.
Top Benefits of Using Salesforce Healthcare CRM for Patient Management.pdf
Salesforce Healthcare CRM, implemented by VALiNTRY360, revolutionizes patient management by enhancing patient engagement, streamlining administrative processes, and improving care coordination. Its advanced analytics, robust security, and seamless integration with telehealth services ensure that healthcare providers can deliver personalized, efficient, and secure patient care. By automating routine tasks and providing actionable insights, Salesforce Healthcare CRM enables healthcare providers to focus on delivering high-quality care, leading to better patient outcomes and higher satisfaction. VALiNTRY360's expertise ensures a tailored solution that meets the unique needs of any healthcare practice, from small clinics to large hospital systems.
For more info visit us https://valintry360.com/solutions/health-life-sciences
UI5con 2024 - Keynote: Latest News about UI5 and it’s Ecosystem
Learn about the latest innovations in and around OpenUI5/SAPUI5: UI5 Tooling, UI5 linter, UI5 Web Components, Web Components Integration, UI5 2.x, UI5 GenAI.
Recording:
https://www.youtube.com/live/MSdGLG2zLy8?si=INxBHTqkwHhxV5Ta&t=0
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Safelyio Toolbox Talk Softwate & App (How To Digitize Safety Meetings)
Consistent toolbox talks are critical for maintaining workplace safety, as they provide regular opportunities to address specific hazards and reinforce safe practices.
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Project Management: The Role of Project Dashboards.pdf
Project management is a crucial aspect of any organization, ensuring that projects are completed efficiently and effectively. One of the key tools used in project management is the project dashboard, which provides a comprehensive view of project progress and performance. In this article, we will explore the role of project dashboards in project management, highlighting their key features and benefits.
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GreenCode-A-VSCode-Plugin--Dario-Jurisic
Presentation about a VSCode plugin from Dario Jurisic at the GSD Community Stage meetup
UI5con 2024 - Bring Your Own Design System
How do you combine the OpenUI5/SAPUI5 programming model with a design system that makes its controls available as Web Components? Since OpenUI5/SAPUI5 1.120, the framework supports the integration of any Web Components. This makes it possible, for example, to natively embed own Web Components of your design system which are created with Stencil. The integration embeds the Web Components in a way that they can be used naturally in XMLViews, like with standard UI5 controls, and can be bound with data binding. Learn how you can also make use of the Web Components base class in OpenUI5/SAPUI5 to also integrate your Web Components and get inspired by the solution to generate a custom UI5 library providing the Web Components control wrappers for the native ones.
KuberTENes Birthday Bash Guadalajara - Introducción a Argo CD
Charla impartida en el evento de "KuberTENes Birthday Bash Guadalajara" para celebrar el 10mo. aniversario de Kubernetes #kuberTENes #celebr8k8s #k8s
How to write a program in any programming language
How to write a program in any programming language
The Key to Digital Success_ A Comprehensive Guide to Continuous Testing Integ...
In today's business landscape, digital integration is ubiquitous, demanding swift innovation as a necessity rather than a luxury. In a fiercely competitive market with heightened customer expectations, the timely launch of flawless digital products is crucial for both acquisition and retention—any delay risks ceding market share to competitors.
Using Query Store in Azure PostgreSQL to Understand Query Performance
Microsoft has added an excellent new extension in PostgreSQL on their Azure Platform. This session, presented at Posette 2024, covers what Query Store is and the types of information you can get out of it.
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Less wrong
- 1. Less wrong Cognitive biases hurts you even if you know about, but it hurts harder if you don’t care about
- 2. Starting new project we will have biiiiiiiiiig load, may be not now, but must be prepared ASAP
- 3. Starting new project we will have biiiiiiiiiig load, may be not now, but must be prepared ASAP COGNITIVE BIAS DETECTED
- 4. Projection bias The tendency to overestimate how much our future selves share one's current preferences, thoughts and values, thus leading to sub-optimal choices.
- 5. We made overcomplicated system We need to invest more time to fix it, even if it completly not fit our current business
- 6. We made overcomplicated system We need to invest more time to fix it, even if it completly not fit our current business COGNITIVE BIAS DETECTED
- 7. Irrational escalation The phenomenon where people justify increased investment in a decision, based on the cumulative prior investment, despite new evidence suggesting that the decision was probably wrong. Also known as the sunk cost fallacy.
- 8. Tests? It will slowdown us.
- 9. Tests? It will slowdown us. COGNITIVE BIAS DETECTED
- 10. Omission bias The omission bias is an alleged type of cognitive bias. It is the tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral than equally harmful omissions (inactions) because actions are more obvious than inactions. It is contentious as to whether this represents a systematic error in thinking, or is supported by a substantive moral theory. For a consequentialist, judging harmful actions as worse than inaction would indeed be inconsistent, but deontological ethics may, and normally does, draw a moral distinction between doing and allowing.[1] The bias is usually showcased through the trolley problem.
- 11. Bias? Nah. I’m not like that.
- 12. Bias? Nah. I’m not like that. COGNITIVE BIAS DETECTED
- 13. Bias blind spot The tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself.
- 14. Bias blind spot The tendency to see oneself as less biased than other people, or to be able to identify more cognitive biases in others than in oneself. Fix your bias just for $0.99 today
Editor's Notes
- искажение прогнозирования
- ескалація прив'язаності
- Недооценка бездействия
- Слепое пятно в отношении когнитивных искажений