The Importance of Micro Feedback in Sports

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A case where you had to wait five seconds for your arrow to hit the target is going to take longer for you to learn than a case where you only had to wait half a second. Two minutes seems way, way worse than 20 seconds. And then like an hour, you know, you might be almost impossible for most people. I think this is why coaches are so important for learning sports because it's just going to take too long to get feedback of whether what you're doing is working.

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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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