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Beyer, Gleason, O’Connor, Rau (2016), Invent More, Toil Less in ;login:(41:3) at USENIX. the Google SRE team identifies toils in running production services and talks about their experiences in how to reduce these toils. A case example the from BigTable SRE team illustrated an incremental process that involved both management and tech teams to reduce toils effectively. Key Concept: toil Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be: Manual, Repetitive, Automatable and not requiring human judgment, Interrupt-driven and reactive, and Of no enduring value....

Vogelsang, L., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Ehrenberg, E., Yonas, A., Diamond, S., Held, R., & Sinha, P. (2018). Potential downside of high initial visual acuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(44), 11333-11338. Vogelsang and colleagues tried to test one interesting hypothesis: seeing sharp, clear images at the very early stage of life can actually do harm to visual perception and its development. The hypothesis started with an observation that infants who have cataracts but cured at early age may actually have problems in face recognition....