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In his latest book, ‘Determined,’ the researcher uses biology to make the case that free will does not exist, an idea that raises moral doubts about the concepts of guilt, punishment, merit and effort He may be one of the great behavioral scientists, but Robert Sapolsky, 66, does not believe th

I once heard John Irving give a lecture on his process at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an in-depth account of the way his novels come to be. He kicked it off by writing a single sentence on the chalkboard—the last line of Last Night in Twisted River.

The background: The human brain is the most energy efficient “computer” on Earth — while a supercomputer needs 20 megawatts of power to process more than a quintillion calculations per second, your brain can do the equivalent with just 20 watts (a megawatt is 1 million watts).

Insider Brief We tend to think of quantum technology and quantum computing as a wave of technological trends that big businesses and global conglomerates must grapple. There is strong evidence that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will face the same challenges and opportunities of quantum.

Imagine this scenario. After months of asking for a promotion, your boss finally offers you an opportunity. She has a high-profile initiative that she wants you to oversee, and you are thrilled. The only drawback is that it’s not a promotion. She’s asking that you act as a team lead.

Re-publishing it as support for the conversation around “measuring” developer “productivity”. Those metrics frequently are used to enforce power differentials, at which point they create all manner of dysfunctions. “Well I’m a senior engineer so we’ll do it my way.

When your front-end starts getting too big, you will want to split it in smaller parts and give each part to a different team to develop, but at the end, they all need to integrate somehow in the same front-end so the user can see it.

Figure 2. Software architecture changes must affect your test strategy To successfully manage this pivot, you need an evolutionary approach that invites the team to pause and understand the new technology and system behaviors.

On an average, we make about 70 conscious decisions in a typical day. Our brain makes dozens of micro decisions (boolean decisions) every single second. Choices, sub-choices, super-sub-choices, tiny little micro decisions building up decision trees and forests to arrive at a macro decision.