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Always make a bet with yourself about whether a test will pass or not

Kent Beck calls this "calling your shot"

Sometimes when you think that it will fail you'll be surprised when it doesn't.

Loosely related, and interesting:

film-lo-and-behold-reveries-of-the-connected-world#simulating-the-future

Later in the film, there was a shot of Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP robot considering a simulation of its future actions. In effect, it was predicting what it expected it would be able to do, and running through it, much like an athlete might visualize a race beforehand. It was a real-time rendered 3D animation that also served to give the researchers insight into how CHIMP was thinking about its next movements.

 
video-maluuba-towards-ai#where-it-wanted-to-look-and-where-it-did-look

At 53, the software shows where it would like to take a peek, and where it actually decided to take a peek.

 

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