Satisficing is to accept the first-seen option that met certain thresholds, known as aspirations. Assume options are presented as vectors \(\vec{x}=(x^1,x^2,\cdots,x^k)\), and the aspiration level as \(\vec{\theta}=(\theta^1,\theta^2,\cdots,\theta^k)\). There is an indicator function for accept,
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Financial Origami, How the Wall Street Model Broke
Brendan Moynihan / 2001
Alan Greenspan: I know that you think you know what i said. but i am not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what i meant.
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Don't Make Me Think 2/e
Steve Krug / 2006
A nice book about web usability. But also applicable to other user interface design cases.
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ACID, BASE, and CAP theorem
ACID
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Start-up ideas
Ways to think of ideas for a start-up: From Wesley Tansey’s blog post
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