The hottest Feedback loops Substack posts right now

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Machine learning algorithms to live by

Mindful Modeler • 519 implied HN points • 05 Mar 24

🕹 Technology Machine Learning Career development Feedback loops Decision-making

Success comes from focusing on failure and learning from past mistakes.
Steer your career like stochastic gradient descent - embrace randomness for growth.
Put trust in tight feedback loops in both machine learning and real-life tasks for improvement.

Open LLM company playbook

Democratizing Automation • 126 implied HN points • 01 Nov 23

🕹 Technology AI Open Source ML models Community Interaction Feedback loops

To succeed as an open LLM company, have a specific niche and positioning strategy.
Training high-quality models is essential for adoption and success in the market.
Interacting with the community, releasing model weights, and benchmarking against closed models can lead to improved products, crowdsourced evaluations, and better public relations.

Comparing approaches of present and future focus in organisations

Great CTOs 'Focus on outcomes' • 19 implied HN points • 22 Jan 24

💼 Business Strategic Planning Feedback loops

Different approaches to how work happens in organizations significantly impact prioritization and work value.
Gap Thinking can lead to organizations focusing on lists of tasks, while Present Thinking involves constant assessment of current conditions for improvement.
Assess organizations based on how they balance present and future thinking and adapt through feedback loops.

VC 101 - Cultivating a Venture Mindset

Inverted J Curves • 2 HN points • 21 Feb 23

💼 Business Venture Capital Investing Decision-making Success Feedback loops

Venture capital involves big swings and high risks for potentially large returns.
Investing in startups is simple in theory but challenging in practice due to the uncertainty of outcomes.
In venture capital, feedback loops are long, and success can hinge on making a few key decisions.

Effort is evidence of broken feedback loops

Subconscious • 2 HN points • 19 Jul 23

🕹 Technology Feedback loops Tools for Thought User Experience Social media Podcasts

Nature operates in complex feedback loops, not linearity
Feedback can be reinforcing (exponential growth) or balancing (equilibrium)
Effort reflects the quality of feedback loops in systems

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Beyond YAML

Making Things • 1 implied HN point • 06 Nov 23

🕹 Technology Programming Languages Data Modeling Semantic Layers Feedback loops

Many semantic layers are built with YAML for its readability and quick setup, but it can lead to a poor developer experience.
YAML lacks immediate feedback for complex expressions, forcing users into a guessing game when writing configurations.
Implementing a real programming language instead of just a configuration DSL can provide instant feedback and support complex data modeling.

AI, Mass Evolution, and Weickian Loops

Irregular Ideas with Paul Kedrosky & Eric Norlin of SKV • 1 HN point • 31 Mar 23

🕹 Technology AI Evolution Applications Feedback loops Programming Languages

Early technology development often starts with simple wrappers around new platforms
Application evolution now involves more direct feedback from users, leading to rapid development
AI applications are evolving quickly, moving away from wrappers towards more complex services, but rapid evolution may lead to destabilization

Healthy Teams Research 🧪

PeopleStorming • 0 implied HN points • 18 Jan 22

🏥 Health & Wellness Team Dynamics Feedback loops Leadership Coaching

Teams benefit from building personal connections and trust, which leads to increased operational efficiency.
Strongly connected teams tend to establish fast feedback loops, supporting innovation and quicker adjustment of work methods.
Healthy teams prioritize traits like trust in leadership, respect for diverse viewpoints, and psychological safety, fostering engagement and preventing burnout.