The Different Methods of Solving Problems

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I think a lot of times it goes the other direction where it's sort of like a creeping badness. And then now they're just at some bad place. But you're kind of like, you're so used to it that you're just kind of not actively thinking about it anymore. You know, like a relationship sort of slowly falls apart. Or another very common case is if your house is slowly gathering mold. Yes. So that's an example where you sort of didn't even know anything else. So that improvement looks like, oh, I'm doing great now. Why would I treat it?

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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What makes some feedback loops better than others? What's the best way to take System 2 knowledge and convert it to System 1 intuition? What are forward-chaining and backward-chaining? When is it best to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization?

Satvik Beri is a cofounder and head of Data Science at Temple Capital, a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency. He is a big believer in the theory of constraints, and he has a background helping companies find and eliminate major development bottlenecks. Some of his interests include machine learning, functional programming, and mentorship. You can reach him at satvik.beri@gmail.com.

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