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• The stories humans most enjoy usually begin with hope, descend into catastrophe, and end in triumph. Joseph Campbell wrote about the Hero’s Journey in the 1940s. Since then, advances in big data and machine learning have given researchers new ways to analyze stories. In one study, researchers used sentiment analysis to track the emotional trajectories of 112,000 plots from books, movies, video games, and even commercials. Their main conclusion was striking. If we had to summarize the average story humans tell, it would go something like this: “Things get worse and worse until, at the last min…

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• Today marks the 1/2 way point in writing my 8th book. In 3 months a manuscript is due at the publisher. My motivation is to learn more. If you can't write about an idea simply, you haven't thought it through. Money as a writing motivation is a triumph of hope over experience.

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• Congrats to @geoffreyhinton for getting the Nobel! His impact is immeasurable, very much deserved.
  Quoting@NobelPrizeBREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

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