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lucidian comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 June 2013 06:12AM

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Comment author: lucidian 28 June 2013 11:07:41AM 5 points [-]

The tradeoff between efficiency and accuracy. It's essential for computational modeling, but it also comes up constantly in my daily life. It keeps me from being so much of a perfectionist that I never finish anything, for instance.