- I thought Iād ask ChatGPT about a specific question about the concept of āitās faster to do X.ā
- For example.
- How much is 3/2 in Python? Itās faster to try than to look for a description in a paper book.
- When I get an error message, instead of looking for something in a book about the error message, it is faster to just take the āunchanged partā of the error message and Google it. StackOverflow is usually a hit.
- Rather than trying to translate the error message itself, it is better to search for the error message in English, find a good explanation on StackOverflow, and machine translate it.
- On the other hand, certain questions are āIt is faster to read the reference manual,
- Certain questions become āthis is faster to read the source code.
- A seasoned engineer unconsciously picks and chooses the ones that look good from among many information acquisition options and uses them.
- I realized that there is this ability to predict āwhich option will return the answer you seek with what degree of probabilityā.
- āThe ability to predict āwhich option will return the answer you seek with what probabilityā is acquired through experience, so you donāt have much confidence in options with which you have little experience yet, Trade-offs between use and exploration.
- I realized that there is this ability to predict āwhich option will return the answer you seek with what degree of probabilityā.
context
- I asked GPT4 about the rationale for the superiority of the barbell portfolio over the ladder portfolio, but he didnāt seem to understand much, so I thought, āThis would be faster to read a book,ā he said.
- Iāve done some light research and Iām wondering if it means that āunder conditions where the interest rate on the loan is highly variable, a barbell that is stretched only at both ends performs better than a ladder that is stretched evenly across the entire loanā or āthatās because the ladder is not sufficiently diversified against the risk of interest rate fluctuationsā. Iām not sure if this interpretation is correct or not, but itās quicker to read what he wrote.
- Itās not so much āitās faster to do itā, but more like āI donāt think I can google any moreā.
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