Essays - Page 15 of 16 - Luca Dellanna

Solving the sources of your problems

You can work to solve your problems, and see them coming back tomorrow, or you can work to resolve the sources of your problems, and never see them again.

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Get Addicted to Your Future Self – Ego and Decision Making

Getting free from our ego is a clear path towards success and happiness - though a difficult, if not impossible, one. It might be much easier and more effective to instead become addicted to our future ego: the future version of our selves.

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Orange sheep, ML and sharpening data

Why do Machine Learning algorithms fail? One reason is a focus on the incorrect level of detail of information. Visual examples and practical techniques to solve the problem.

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The Fence Paradox in medicine: the third kind of iatrogenics

January 31, 2018
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Can medicine and regulations kill people? How the Fence Paradox applies to medicine.

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Electrified fences and risk homeostasis

January 26, 2018
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Can regulations kill people? Second order effects in regulations might produce more harm than good. Risk homeostasis, the Fence Paradox and iatrogenics are the culprits.

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Whack-a-mole medicine

January 15, 2018
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Why medicine can cause more harm than good if it chooses the wrong indicators and focuses on curing the symptoms rather than the diseases. Goodhart's law applied to medicine and iatrogenics.

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