[#ALM] #House, Occam’s razor and in the end we all make mistakes

Buenas,

Today’s post starts with a statement:

HOUSE is a genius

One can refute me that all chapters are the same, something like this:

1. Patient X has unknown disease
2. Give it to House you don’t want to see and accept it reluctantly
3. Patient X creates a link with one of the assistants of House
4. House skips rules to see that kind of disease the patient
5. Team crap it, almost are charged to the patient
6. To House a good of their bosses drop
7. In a moment of inspiration, House da with disease

… and always, or almost always, by the way is ruled out Lupus or autoimmune disease.

With this summary you’ve saved to see the 8 seasons of House . However the best that has House, is that throughout the entire series, the protagonist has a nasty / Host which has made to let go a few phrases that are pure wisdom. An excellent example and of which my favorite is:

Women are never wrong, even when they are wrong, there comes a time of discussion in which surprisingly return to reason.

As that, the 3rd chapter of the first season is titled ” “ Completo de Occam Razor “, which translated into spanglish is something like “ Ockham’s razor . Ockham’s Razor is a principle of makes a pile of years (14th century) that says something like this:

In equal, the simplest explanation is usually the correct.

This is pure wisdom, and common sense to the square. When you work in computer science and issues you face every day, you end up realizing that this is a truth for framing. But of course, as in all truth to frame, should take into account the context of each claim.

Today I’m very graphic, so here is a clear example:

It is clear not?, I hope that Yes, the simplest statements also tend to be correct.

And now if we can already return to House . In the chapter that inspired this post, House gives one twist to the phrase of Ockham, rethinking something like:

The simplest explanation is almost always someone goofed

This is also 100% applicable to our work every day in computer science. Often we are able to find network problems, problems of deployments, upgrades, etc.; When the 1, that we should do is talk to people to see or who has touched something. It is amazing how a little 5 minute session with people affected by a problem can help more than hours and hours of trial and error with a problem.

And to close, the Council always: fosters a culture of communication in your team, this is fundamental for the correct operation of the same.

Saludos @ Home

El Bruno