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68 lines
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title: 2025-12-18
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- authorship/original
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- type/daily
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# 2025-12-18
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## 2025-12-18 08:32
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[[uncertainty-in-construction-estimating]]
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## 2025-12-18 10:38
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#topic/meta
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I definitively think my new approach
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of putting nascent ideas in [[daily-notes|daily notes]]
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rather than separate fleeting notes
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is superior.
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The unfortunate reality is I'll never look at most of them again,
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so better that they don't crowd out my main notes.
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## 2025-12-18 14:18
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### Estimating Golf
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What interests me most in [[construction-estimating]]
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is an idea you might call "estimating golf":
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the goal is to produce a satisfactory[^1] estimate,
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but the estimator can not view the project documents
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and must instead ask questions about the job
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(answerable in a sentence or less)
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of a neutral party ("the reader").
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The estimator fails if the estimate is unsatisfactory[^1],
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but otherwise is scored by number of questions asked.
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[^1]: satisfactory in terms of accuracy and precision,
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according to the standards of the organization.
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a control estimate must be prepared accordingly
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by a neutral party ("the control").
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You could further imagine different brackets
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for required accuracy and precision,
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whether organization historicals are freely available
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or must be questioned like project details.
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The most interesting part of this problem is choosing when to stop,
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since it requires one to estimate their certainty of their estimate.
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## 2025-12-18 15:22
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PDI has moved up the schedule to transition to Accubid Anywhere
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and will be signing a contract with Trimble in late January.
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[Drawer AI | Automated Electrical Takeoff & Estimating](https://drawer.ai/)
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## 2025-12-18 15:30
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[Kip (unit) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_\(unit\))
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[Construction Cost Estimating](https://www.quantity-takeoff.com/index.htm)
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