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		NaturalPhallacy on Dec 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how ... Yup! Time and effort absolutely count. But the "star line" folk out of Heinlein's Beyond this Horizon are the ones that catapult the entire species forward. The Wright brothers, the Norman Bourlags, the Nikola Teslas, the Alan Turings.

cutemonster on Dec 19, 2021 [–]

What about charismatic poor decision makers, pulling everyone in the wrong direction? Or evil geniuses

Maybe multiply with sign(talent)? And the exponent could be abs(talent):

    sing(talent) *
       (effort * time) ^
                 abs(talent)

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