A fan once called John Mayer "the Master of Duh," which he took as a huge compliment, replying "Damn right I'm The Master of Duh!" Duh is simplicity-in-retrospect. It’s the revealed order within chaos. Duh! Here are some familiar examples from art, music, and product design:
This is the Kelly Bet, the anti-Cheems Mindset, the "high ambition not worthy of concealment". Some more Duhs:
- Machine Learning Studies should be replicated every year with new hardware, and all data sets should be public for it. Resources are plentiful, and the bar of entry is low.
- Psychometric studies should be subjected to Kirkegaard-tier scrutiny as many related fields have publication bias and replication crisis. Only the elite schools can prove they are superior through this.
- Economist should start a Couch Potato Portfolio competition with a 10-20 year sliding window against active investors. It would be valuable to validate the barbell portfolio against the index fund strategy, when both are claimed to match the market.
My "duh" moment. When I finally figured out how to get my vanishing point symmetrical. 720 rather than 360... https://www.instagram.com/p/CLkfH3AskLp/
This is the Kelly Bet, the anti-Cheems Mindset, the "high ambition not worthy of concealment". Some more Duhs:
- Machine Learning Studies should be replicated every year with new hardware, and all data sets should be public for it. Resources are plentiful, and the bar of entry is low.
- Psychometric studies should be subjected to Kirkegaard-tier scrutiny as many related fields have publication bias and replication crisis. Only the elite schools can prove they are superior through this.
- Economist should start a Couch Potato Portfolio competition with a 10-20 year sliding window against active investors. It would be valuable to validate the barbell portfolio against the index fund strategy, when both are claimed to match the market.