Quotes About Evaluation

If the player had broken his neck the night before the NBA draft, for instance, it would be nice to know. But if you had asked Daryl Morey in 2006 to choose between his model and a roomful of basketball scouts, he'd have taken his model.

No one cares about data when everything is going well," said Josh Wills, the former chief data engineer at Slack, who agreed to help. "People only care about data when the shit hits the fan. 'Oh my God, what's going on??? We need data!

How a switch made by Cisco compared to a switch made by Juniper.

You have to figure out what the model is good and bad at, and what humans are good and bad at," said Morey. Humans sometimes had access to information that the model did not, for instance.

What constitutes a gain or a loss depends on the representation of the problem and on the context in which it arises

The draft has never been anything but a fucking crapshoot," Billy had taken to saying, "We take fifty guys and we celebrate if two of them make it. In what other business is two for fifty a success? If you did that in the stock market, you'd go broke.

In math you always check your work. In medicine, no.

recalls Avishai Margalit. "You discussed people. It was a constant thing, a constant puzzle: What makes others tick? It comes from the shtetl. Jews were petty merchants. They had to assess others, all the time. Who is dangerous? Who is not dangerous? Who will repay the debt, who won't repay the debt? People were basically dependent on their psychological judgment.

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible. I always ask them, 'Who did you miss?' he said. Which future superstar had they written off, or which future bust had they fallen in love with? If they don't give me a good one, I'm like, 'Fuck 'em.

I realised suddenly that I was thirty-four and not making a very good job of it.

one of those rare books that demands you either defend the way you live or change it. Because

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

Once I finish shooting a film, I usually sit on it to see how we can make it better.