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		Neil44 on Feb 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most data work seems fundamentally worthless You could say a lot of the work is speculative because you might be wrong about how much value it ends up producing. But if you say that 1 project in 10 pays off you just take the cost of the other 9 as the cost of the 10th.

somecommit on Feb 27, 2023 [–]

That why this kind of department for sure was called R&D... His organization just didn't reached the "D"...

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