In order to understand this you have to also look at how many people it "recommended" to you that you did not know. My guess is that number is extremely high. The fact that you found one interesting person in that mix of results is interesting to you. As a result your amazement is a form of hindsight bias. You think it is amazing because they connected you. In reality it is closer to luck brought by the vast number of connections available in Facebook.
This hit or miss scenario is referred to as sensitivity and specificity. The number of hits that are actually connected (out of the number of total recommendations) vs the number that they did not recommend to you because they didn't think they were connected (thrown in the trash bin). To truly know how magically good the algorithm for suggested connections is you have to know both stats, and I don't know how likely it is that FB would give you that information.
From a business perspective, Your boss would benfit more from hiring someone that is already trained. Sorry. I've lost too many jobs to this. But ultimately your company would be less likely to suffer the hassle of having a underexperienced, less than capable person, and benefit from no down time due to you not knowing what you are doing.
I've been using Redhat since around 6.9 and since I've tested and tried many of the prevalent distros. All which have come up short in the long run. Debian lags with features(current-ness), Mandrake sometimes doesn't even install, Gentoo more compilcated than FreeBSD, and a few others.
I can't understand why the Fedora Core didn't even start where its "predecessor?" RH9 left off. There seems to be a large gap in usability, somewhat in compatability and stability.
I work for a mid-sized university where RedHat has become over the last 3 years the base of our infrastructure, and now I'm left with the alternative of paying excessive amounts of money (almost at the MS level) for a product that was once the corner stone of the OpenSource movement. or moving to a less stable alternative.
So now it seems that the distro with the most to offer is more or less abandoning the community that built and supported it.
As a Security Admin at B&L I developed an online request system complete with work flow and authorization tracking. Sadly however I was axed weeks before implementation.
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In order to understand this you have to also look at how many people it "recommended" to you that you did not know. My guess is that number is extremely high. The fact that you found one interesting person in that mix of results is interesting to you. As a result your amazement is a form of hindsight bias. You think it is amazing because they connected you. In reality it is closer to luck brought by the vast number of connections available in Facebook. This hit or miss scenario is referred to as sensitivity and specificity. The number of hits that are actually connected (out of the number of total recommendations) vs the number that they did not recommend to you because they didn't think they were connected (thrown in the trash bin). To truly know how magically good the algorithm for suggested connections is you have to know both stats, and I don't know how likely it is that FB would give you that information.
From a business perspective, Your boss would benfit more from hiring someone that is already trained. Sorry. I've lost too many jobs to this. But ultimately your company would be less likely to suffer the hassle of having a underexperienced, less than capable person, and benefit from no down time due to you not knowing what you are doing.
I've been using Redhat since around 6.9 and since I've tested and tried many of the prevalent distros. All which have come up short in the long run. Debian lags with features(current-ness), Mandrake sometimes doesn't even install, Gentoo more compilcated than FreeBSD, and a few others. I can't understand why the Fedora Core didn't even start where its "predecessor?" RH9 left off. There seems to be a large gap in usability, somewhat in compatability and stability. I work for a mid-sized university where RedHat has become over the last 3 years the base of our infrastructure, and now I'm left with the alternative of paying excessive amounts of money (almost at the MS level) for a product that was once the corner stone of the OpenSource movement. or moving to a less stable alternative. So now it seems that the distro with the most to offer is more or less abandoning the community that built and supported it.
As a Security Admin at B&L I developed an online request system complete with work flow and authorization tracking. Sadly however I was axed weeks before implementation.