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datsci_est_2015today at 12:30 PM1 replyview on HN

> > Most of what's planned falls down within the first few hours of implementation.

> Not my experience at all. We know what computers are capable of.

You must not work in a field where uncertainty is baked in, like Data Science. We call them “hypotheses”. As an example, my team recently had a week-long workshop where we committed to bodies of work on timelines and 3 out of our 4 workstreams blew up just a few days after the workshop because our initial hypotheses were false (i.e. “best case scenario X is true and we can simply implement Y; whoops, X is false, onto the next idea”)


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sbarretoday at 12:40 PM

Wait, are you perhaps saying that... "it depends"? ;-)

Every single reply in this thread is someone sharing their subjective anecdotal experience..

There are so many factors involved in how work pans out beyond planning. Even a single one of us could probably tell 10 different stories about 10 different projects that all went differently.

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