Hamming  Presentation  Handout  Mustafa  İlker  Saraç,  Hakan  Sözer,  Muhammed  Yağmur  Şahin,  Çağlar  Terzi,  Arif  Usta  

 Chapter 27 - Unreliable Data

• There is never time to do the job right, but there is always time to fix it later.

• Why i should believe the data was consistent? • What about Hamming's rule?:

“90% of the time the next independent measurement will fall outside the previous 90% confidence limits!”

• "The human animal was not designed to be reliable; it can

not count accurately.” Chapter 29 - You Get What You Measure

• The way you choose to measure things controls to a large extent what happens.

• Inbreeding occurs which is not good. biased? • "In the future change will be the normal state of

things." • Human factor, the biggest game changer! • "There is never time to do the job right, but there is

always time to fix it later."

YOU GET WHAT YOU MEASURE! Chapter 30 - You and Your Research

• It seems to me it is better to do significant things than to just get along through life to its end.

o It is worth trying to accomplish the goals you set for yourself

o It is worth setting yourself high goals.

LUCK FAVORS THE PREPARED MIND!

• Edison; 'genius was 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.' • One of the characteristics you see is great people when

young were generally active. • If you do not work on important problems then it is

obvious you have little chance of doing important things. • Confidence in yourself, then, is an essential property. • Courage, or confidence, is a property to develop in

yourself. • 'If not now then when, if not me then who?' • Great works come early because fame in science is a curse

to quality productivity. • You should do your job in such a fashion others can build

top of it. • If you are to get recognition then, others must use your

results, adopt, adapt, extend, and elaborate them, and in the process give you credit for it.

• But is it worth for all that effort?

Socrates; 'The unexamined life is not worth living.'