Alex Harris

Conf42: Quantum Computing 2024

Strokes vs Keystrokes: Using Causal AI to help uncover the similarities between athletic and developer performance

In most 90s movies the nerds and the jocks were depicted as polar opposites. In reality, however, these two groups of people have more in common than most. Lets take performance for example. Most would describe athletic performance as a more or less straight line showing improvement over time. Most devs would also argue that they are quite consistent with how effective their output is. Neither...