Great question @trappology:
โ๐๐ป Do I recommend unlimited vacation days?
Here's my take. Thread ๐งต โฌ๏ธ
Hey @joelgascoigne do you recommend unlimited vacation days \U0001f44d or \U0001f44e for startups?
— Will Trapp (@trappology) December 19, 2020
With that said, I believe Unlimited Vacation gets more criticism than it deserves. Some even go as far as to say that Unlimited Vacation is unethical and a way to stop employees taking vacation.
We're all adults, and when we're part of something we really believe in, we should be trusted to manage our energy and our time.
If you create an environment where team members self-directed, motivated, and bought into the mission, then you can benefit by giving them far more freedom.
- Do we scrap it and go back to the status quo? That means quotas for time off.
- Or, do we push on and find a better solution? One that captures the very positive intentions of Unlimited Vacation, and avoids the downsides.
The result was Minimum Vacation. It seems almost obvious now, but at the time, we could have easily reverted to the status quo. I'm so glad we didn't.
I think the best option we have right now, is Minimum Vacation.
Our vacation minimum is at least 3 weeks (15 work days) of time off throughout the year, in addition to the public and religious holidays you observe.
Try those wild ideas. Question the status quo and try improved approaches.
Test whether those new ideas work, and adapt when they don't.
But fight for a new idea, that still improves the status quo. The world needs that innovation.
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Thereโs nothing in the Agile Manifesto or Principles that states you should never have any idea what youโre trying to build.
Youโre allowed to think about a desired outcome from the beginning.
Itโs not Big Design Up Front if you do in-depth research to understand the userโs problem.
Itโs not BDUF if you spend detailed time learning who needs this thing and why they need it.
Itโs not BDUF if you help every team member know what success looks like.
Agile is about reducing risk.
Itโs not Agile if you increase risk by starting your sprints with complete ignorance.
Itโs not Agile if you donโt research.
Donโt make the mistake of shutting down critical understanding by labeling it Bg Design Up Front.
It would be a mistake to assume this research should only be done by designers and researchers.
Product management and developers also need to be out with the team, conducting the research.
Shared Understanding is the key objective
Big Design Up Front is a thing to avoid.
Defining all the functionality before coding is BDUF.
Drawing every screen and every pixel is BDUF.
Promising functionality (or delivery dates) to customers before development starts is BDUF.
These things shouldnโt happen in Agile.
Thereโs nothing in the Agile Manifesto or Principles that states you should never have any idea what youโre trying to build.
Youโre allowed to think about a desired outcome from the beginning.
Itโs not Big Design Up Front if you do in-depth research to understand the userโs problem.
Itโs not BDUF if you spend detailed time learning who needs this thing and why they need it.
Itโs not BDUF if you help every team member know what success looks like.
Agile is about reducing risk.
Itโs not Agile if you increase risk by starting your sprints with complete ignorance.
Itโs not Agile if you donโt research.
Donโt make the mistake of shutting down critical understanding by labeling it Bg Design Up Front.
It would be a mistake to assume this research should only be done by designers and researchers.
Product management and developers also need to be out with the team, conducting the research.
Shared Understanding is the key objective
I\u2019d recommend that the devs participate directly in the research.
— Jared Spool (@jmspool) November 18, 2018
If the devs go into the first sprint with a thorough understanding of the user\u2019s problems, they are far more likely to solve it well.
Big Design Up Front is a thing to avoid.
Defining all the functionality before coding is BDUF.
Drawing every screen and every pixel is BDUF.
Promising functionality (or delivery dates) to customers before development starts is BDUF.
These things shouldnโt happen in Agile.
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At the heart of this lies the most important technique in modern deep learning - transfer learning.
Let's analyze how it
2/ For starters, let's look at what a neural network (NN for short) does.
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How does it all work?
3/ We show an image to our model.
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4/ The picture goes into the layer at the bottom.
Each layer performs computation on the image, transforming it and passing it upwards.
5/ By the time the image reaches the uppermost layer, it has been transformed to the point that it now consists of two numbers only.
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At the heart of this lies the most important technique in modern deep learning - transfer learning.
Let's analyze how it
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In this thread, we will train an advanced Computer Vision model on a challenging dataset. \U0001f415\U0001f408 Training completes in 25 minutes on my 3yrs old Ryzen 5 CPU.
Let me show you how...
2/ For starters, let's look at what a neural network (NN for short) does.
An NN is like a stack of pancakes, with computation flowing up when we make predictions.
How does it all work?
3/ We show an image to our model.
An image is a collection of pixels. Each pixel is just a bunch of numbers describing its color.
Here is what it might look like for a black and white image
4/ The picture goes into the layer at the bottom.
Each layer performs computation on the image, transforming it and passing it upwards.
5/ By the time the image reaches the uppermost layer, it has been transformed to the point that it now consists of two numbers only.
The outputs of a layer are called activations, and the outputs of the last layer have a special meaning... they are the predictions!
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For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have โ much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
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1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits โ that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE
2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less. https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n
3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N โ 4 million)
(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)
4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.
For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have โ much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3
5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)
