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18 September
17 September
16 September
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korrents.com
If AI is risky like fire, everyone should have it; if it is risky like a nuclear weapon, no one should.Their words
If AI is risky like fire is risky, then you want everyone to have it. If AI is risky like a nuclear weapon is risky, then you want no one to have it.
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korrents.com
AI-assisted biological research still depends on physical wet-lab work that remains a necessary bottleneck for now.Their words
This physical work will remain necessary for the foreseeable future.
What AI can and cannot do in biosecurityyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
15 September
14 September
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anything that feels like a way to get out of doing the work will come back to bite you. You have to go through yourself to get anywhere good.
13 September
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In this model, if someone or something could “commandeer” the Intelligence sector, their power over society would be much more limited than it might appear at first. The world does not change that much at first, because the necessary complements are lacking.
A simple model of AI-aided economic growthmarginalrevolution.com
12 September
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korrents.com
The War on Terror, including the fight against ISIS, was generally successful and necessary.Their words
the War on Terror, including the fight against ISIS, was generally successful and necessary.
10 September
6 September
5 September
3 September
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This is playing with fire and potentially extremely bad news, both that OpenAI found the technique effective, and that OpenAI chose to use it.
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It’s a simple truth that if you want your economy to escape poverty, you need lots of energy consumption
1 September
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korrents.com
Anthropomorphizing AI systems is necessary for reasoning about, explaining, and predicting their behavior accurately.Their words
Anthropomorphizing the AIs is the only way to reason about, explain to civilians about, or make good predictions about current AIs.
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korrents.com
Writing is itself an act of thinking, so automating the writing removes the thinking, not just the labor.Their words
The act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.
We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org
31 August
From one piece How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandt 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And that's why when kids get to algebra and they start to struggle, the issue is not the algebra. The issue is the third grade math facts they didn't learn. And the way to fix the problem is not pound them with more algebra. It's to go fix the third grade problem.
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The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success supported by a caring adult. And you just want to run that loop.
29 August
From one piece @dhh on X 2 beliefs · x.com
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But if you return fire with fire, the only thing that'll burn is our reputation. The troll who triggered you into flashing your teeth won't face any consequences, but every spectator who saw it will judge you.
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Omarchy is not going to adopt a formal Code of Conduct because those turned out to be struggle-session processes in the last turning. But we are going to play nice. We're going to be courteous, professional, and composed in our direct interactions with users, competitors, and even haters. Because that's what's going to pave the path to the win.
22 August
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We now know that fires are necessary for healthy forests, that a century of fire suppression in the West has been disastrous.
19 August
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Likedrcmnd.app
ChatGPTTheir words
Here’s me talking to ChatGPT. Big picture: I struggle to imagine a better conversation with a human being on this topic.
17 August
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I argue that it will become necessary to make these unwritten goals of mathematics much more explicit; but once we have thoroughly examined and codified them, our community will emerge stronger and more resilient than before.
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korrents.com
A validated theory of intelligence may be necessary for achieving genuine AI alignment.Their words
There's a good chance a theory of intelligence will turn out to be necessary for real alignment.
11 August
10 August
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korrents.com
Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.Their words
That's what I mean when I say that if you skip the struggle, you miss the growth. Sometimes the struggle is all that really matters.
5 August
30 July
29 July
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I think the case of TLA+ and most, not all, but most formal methods, they shine the most in highly computational domains, where most of the problems are highly technical and not like business embedded.
27 July
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it's it's literally we're looking at neurons in the model's brain that light up when prompt injection happens. So the model won't even tell you but we can actually see those neurons and we can figure out and diagnose that it's happening. And then you combine that with the auto mode classifier and with these three layers we just cannot demonstrate prompt injection anymore.
26 July
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
20 July
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Even if you're doing hard ones, if you look at the work of people like uh Gloria Mark, the things like crossword and sudoku, they're less of like a true cognitive challenge, right? It's it's almost has more of like a meditation meditative like effect, right? Which can be a good thing, right? So you're focused but not challenged really.
19 July
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I think there's a difference between being able to write lines of code in a particular language like Python or C++ and understanding how code, computer systems, products work. And I don't think the latter is going away.
17 July
15 July
11 July
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I find what is most precious is to eliminate the friction necessary to write.
9 July
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Because if you're those three things, if you got fire in your belly, you learn quickly, and you're self-aware, you can kind of get good at anything eventually.
2 July
30 June
22 June
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Justin Gest, Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy is a political economy argument that widespread immigration can drain home countries of their democracy supporters to some extent.
17 June
16 June
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When you break that, when you overthrow the ruler, when you dissolve the republic, when you put in a new thing, it doesn't have that same staying power. And so, it's very common when there's one regime change for there to then be five regime changes rapid-fire over and over.
15 June
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4 June
From one piece The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, like with lawyers particularly, you need some entity to back up the product. You need kind of like an ownership of the product. You need somebody to be able to fire or or hire, like licensing issues. There's a lot of like sort of like regulatory layers that are like also going to be keeping even if there's no relational element human in the loop that have nothing to do with like the ability of the human to actually perform the service.
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we don't have any data. I've been kind of saying we need a Manhattan Project for data. We don't have data on basically consumer demand elasticities. We don't know what they are.
2 June
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I think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.
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Most business advice is necessary but not sufficient on its own to achieve success.
1 June
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If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.
28 May
22 May
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korrents.com
Republican lawmakers have lost the party cohesion needed to shield a Trump ally from an impeachment trial.Their words
My guess is Republicans have lost the necessary cohesion to fall on Trump's sword and block a trial.
15 May
14 May
9 May
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The necessary tax rates depend on how big a government you want, but all these systems rely on people paying taxes.
24 April
22 April
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korrents.com
AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.Their words
But also LLMs increase the need for these formal proofs because, you know, we're live coding a bunch of stuff. If we have to manually review all of that code, then that will become the bottleneck.
15 April
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my mental model of our company the input is electron the output is tokens that is in the middle Nvidia and our job is to to do as much as necessary as little as possible to enable that transformation to be done at incredible capabilities
7 April
1 April
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No new feature necessary. Just make sure that we can do that. And then that allow the business the company to just pour a whole bunch of hardware behind that and it will scale.
23 March
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But I struggle to envision a general, composable, concurrent paradigm without one.
From error-handling to structured concurrencyblog.nelhage.com
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And if everything is proprietary, it's hard to do research and it's hard to innovate on top of, around, with. And so… Open source is fundamentally necessary for many industries to join the AI revolution.
22 March
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korrents.com
AI did not create the bottlenecks in software delivery; it threw gas on processes everybody already knew were weak.Their words
There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire and so all of that is a problem.
16 March
11 March
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korrents.com
Being anti-AI in 2026 is like being anti-the-sun: the people who stay that way will have to go live underground.Their words
I think a lot of the people coming out of knowledge work are just anti-AI. And those people are going to struggle. I'm sorry, but if you're anti-AI at this point, it's like being anti-the the sun. You're going to have to go live underground, right?
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Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
3 March
27 February
10 February
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korrents.com
Manufacturing and mining in space will never be lucrative enough to pay for human settlement of space.Their words, before
Furthermore, I believe it’s very unlikely that space-based manufacturing or mining could be lucrative enough to fund the venture.
Their words now
Today, exploding demand for power-intensive AI applications provides enough of an upside to justify producing components in space, providing the economic engine necessary to justify and fund the trillions of dollars necessary to build and sustain space factories.
4 February
26 January
21 January
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Eight SleepTheir words
Consider using a noise machine to offset environmental sounds or earplugs if necessary. Temperature controlled mattresses such as Eight Sleep are great.
1 January
From one piece We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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go fire up your browser. Do it in incognito. Go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address. Try support. See how your support is. Try to contact sales.
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korrents.com
The next constraint on AI adoption is not what the agents can do but how many of them a company can absorb.Their words
And so that's going to be a headwind that today everything seems like it has tailwinds, right? Everything's on fire. But people are going to get exhausted for having so many agents.
29 December 2025
5 December 2025
25 November 2025
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The Roman Empire, therefore, is actually not necessary for keeping industry going.
18 November 2025
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Very often, learning skills that are automated in practice is a necessary stepping stone to cultivating uniquely human skills.
12 November 2025
31 October 2025
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korrents.com
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.Their words
I am far from certain that NASA can regain anything like the vigor necessary to respond decisively to the Chinese threat, but I am determined that the free people of Earth not live under a Red Moon
NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
26 October 2025
30 September 2025
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korrents.com
A phone is not a necessary device; set your own agenda and the phone only gets in the way.Their words
I don't think a phone is a necessary device. I remember growing up, I didn't have a mobile phone. When I was a student at the university, I didn't have a mobile phone. When I finally got to use a mobile phone, I never used phone calls.
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it seems like struggle is a part of life, either you do it earlier or you do it later. And it’s true, that’s such a good point that competition does seem to be a really powerful driver of skill development
24 September 2025
9 September 2025
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With Web forms, the burden is on people to adapt to databases. Today's AI models, however, can flip this requirement. That is, they allow people to provide information in whatever form they like and use AI do the work necessary to put that information into the right structure for a database.
4 August 2025
4 July 2025
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korrents.com
Modern CPUs can now predict the indirect dispatch jump in a bytecode interpreter loop with high accuracy.Their words
Modern CPUs mostly no longer struggle to predict the bytecode-dispatch indirect jump inside a "conventional" bytecode interpreter loop.
18 June 2025
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the current situation in Iran shows that even if an "IAEA for AI" is necessary for some purposes, it won't be sufficient for resolving the tricky geopolitical issues raised by AI.
10 June 2025
5 June 2025
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Many years ago, I think it might've been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It'll be more profound than fire or electricity. So, I have to back myself. I still think that's the case.
From one piece Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
What survives of podcasting once AI delivers information better is the part where you watch a human struggle with it.Their words
I think the element of podcasting or audio books that is about information gathering, that part might be removed, or that might be more efficiently and in a compelling way done by AI. But then it’ll be just nice to hear humans struggle with the information, contend with the information, try to internalize it
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I sometimes also struggle explaining to people, articulating, why I believe meeting in person for world leaders is powerful. It just seems naive to say that, but there is something there in person
24 May 2025
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I think whoever fired first was not decided at that point, but I do think that from the moment that Hitler takes power in 1933, a conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany is inevitable.
23 March 2025
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I knew that our competition was not going to be startups. It was incumbents. And I also knew that incumbents generally struggle with speed because by definition they have massive scale and usually entrenched architecture.
21 March 2025
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The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate AmericaTheir words
A unique lens on work in the late 90s that still resonated when I read it in 2018. It's a soulful exploration of how to maintain your humanity, creativity and inner fire in environments that often prioritize conformity and efficiency.
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner AmbitionTheir words
A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.
20 March 2025
29 January 2025
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korrents.com
Good storytelling doesn't require inventing something entirely new; it can be built from existing material.Their words
One myth of good storytelling is that it requires dreaming up something entirely new from scratch. That's not necessary.
31 December 2024
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korrents.com
Reading fiction is necessary to an engineer's creative capacity; reading only technical books drains itTheir words
Yet, I also need to read fiction because if I only read tech books, they take away my creative energy rather than grant it, as fiction does.
27 December 2024
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Smarter Faster BetterTheir words
My second book is about the science of productivity, and how to succeed with less stress and struggle, to get more done without sacrificing what we care about most.
11 October 2024
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Neurosymbolic AI — combining such machinery with neural networks – is likely a necessary condition for going forward.
2 September 2024
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Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app
F.I.R.E for dummiesTheir words
I stand in awe of what author Jackie Cummings Koski has done here. This is a comprehensive overview of what FIRE is and how it is done, fashioned in the famous "for dummies" template. I wouldn't have known how to even begin to pull this together, let alone gotten it over the finish line in such fine form.
21 May 2024
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korrents.com
Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makesTheir words
The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
22 March 2024
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Because we have that policy, Launch on Warning, which is exactly like it says. It means the United States will not wait to absorb a nuclear attack. It will launch nuclear weapons in response before the bomb actually hits.
18 March 2024
From one piece Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The road to AGI should be a giant power struggle. The world should… Well, not should. I expect that to be the case.
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I kind of hate ads just as an aesthetic choice. I think ads needed to happen on the internet for a bunch of reasons, to get it going, but it’s a momentary industry. The world is richer now. I like that people pay for ChatGPT and know that the answers they’re getting are not influenced by advertisers.
24 February 2024
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Lovedsponsoredrcmnd.app
Theft of FireTheir words
Theft of Fire offers a plausible and realistic universe. The characters, Marcus Warnoc and Miranda Foxgrove, are not mere archetypes; they are complex, flawed, and deeply human. Their struggle to trust one another and overcome their own demons is a powerful allegory for the modern human condition.
20 February 2024
From one piece Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #413 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.Their words
So having an independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.
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korrents.com
A large, respected owner on the board is what buys a CEO the time to make decisions that only pay off years later.Their words
That large owner on the board can help buy the time necessary for management to behave in a longer term way. And that's, I think, good for all the shareholders.
3 February 2024
16 January 2024
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I suspect that in the future, it'll be easier to get models to output exactly what we need with minimal prompting, and these techniques will become less important.
5 December 2023
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Full fine-tuning of LLMs has become prohibitive and requires parameter-efficient methods instead.
1 December 2023
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korrents.com
Current large language models still struggle to compose operations into correct multi-step reasoning paths.Their words
Overall, current LLMs still struggle with composing operations into correct reasoning paths.
10 August 2023
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korrents.com
The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from.Their words
It is our striving that becomes the very essence of meaning.
3 July 2023
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it’s going to be incredibly difficult, but also incredibly necessary, for the world to produce much more food with much less land.
The Food Problem Is Bigger Than Lettucemichaelgrunwald.substack.com
16 January 2023
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korrents.com
Songs come out of suffering, and a system that has endured nothing has nothing to make one from.Their words
Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer.
1 January 2023
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With our current capability, NASA would struggle to keep a crew alive for six months on the White House lawn, let alone for years in a Martian yurt.
7 September 2022
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So, there is no necessary trajectory towards great complexity in human beings at the end of it. It’s very easy to imagine that without photosynthesis arising or without eukaryotes arising, that the planet could be full of bacteria and nothing else.
9 August 2022
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in 1985, um my colleagues and I came up with a description of how people actually make life-and-death decisions under extreme time pressure and certainty. And we called it the recognition prime decision model. And it's a blend of intuition plus analysis. And we found we studied firefighters. We found that most fire that accounted for almost 90% of the tough decisions firefighters made.
15 July 2022
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In order to move this army or sustain it in place it is thus necessary to ensure a massive and relatively continuous supply of food to the army. Failure to do that will result in the army falling apart long before it comes anywhere close to the enemy.
25 May 2022
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For starters, it’s abundantly clear that both practice and instruction are necessary for effective learning.
19 April 2022
11 January 2022
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The World-Ending FireTheir words
After years of people recommending him to me, I finally took the plunge into the literary world of Wendell Berry. Now I can't help but wonder what took me so long. This 2018 collection of Berry's best essays is a fantastic introduction into his genre-defining polemic style, which mixes razor-sharp commentary with a poetry grounded in lived experience, to argue on behalf of land, the environment, and a slower, richer approach to life.
16 November 2021
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Adding a dependency is a serious decision which requires consensus within the team, an audit of the new dependency, an understanding of its health and long-term prospects, and an ongoing commitment to re-audit them and be prepared to change course as necessary.
I will pay you cash to delete your npm moduledrewdevault.com
1 February 2021
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
25 November 2020
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But nobody will ever get to the billions of representative miles necessary to say anything compelling about expected safety until after they actually deploy their fleet.
1 June 2020
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Recommendssponsoredrcmnd.app
Khan AcademyTheir words
They are probably most famous for the videos Sal does, but arguably the site is most valuable as a source of problems you can drill on, starting from the very basics if necessary. I may be biased, though, given that I used to work there!
28 May 2020
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By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.
25 December 2019
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Lovedrcmnd.app
My StruggleTheir words
It was the first book I ever read that had the feel of life as I experience it.
12 May 2019
20 January 2019
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Their words
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
13 July 2018
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korrents.com
Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.Their words
So that's precisely what I've done - intercepted my own traffic passed over an insecure connection and put together a string of demos in a 24-minute video explaining why HTTPS is necessary on a static website.
20 April 2018
1 January 2018
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Halt and Catch FireTheir words
Halt and Catch Fire is extraordinary. It’s the best fictional portrayal of what a tech start up is actually like.
27 September 2017
20 January 2016
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Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.
27 August 2015
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LSTMs are explicitly designed to avoid the long-term dependency problem. Remembering information for long periods of time is practically their default behavior, not something they struggle to learn!
12 October 2012
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korrents.com
Speaking badly is not a failure on the way to speaking well; it is a stage that has to be passed through on purpose.Their words
I learned a long time ago that speaking like “Tarzan” is an absolutely necessary stage to go through, so you get used to using the language in SOME way. You learn to get used to the embarrassment and get on with learning quicker.
17 September 2012
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