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jacques_chester
on Feb 11, 2013
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The Importance of Excel
Excel is like dynamically typed programming languages.
It gives fast positive feedback.
It gives very slow, often quite spectacular, negative feedback.
mozzie
on Feb 13, 2013
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Are you sure that you understand the meaning of positive and negative feedback? Positive feedback leads to runaway (it adds); negative feedback is self limiting (it subtracts).
jacques_chester
on Feb 17, 2013
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Feedback in the sense of psychology, not systems theory.
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It gives fast positive feedback.
It gives very slow, often quite spectacular, negative feedback.