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Today I visited country #100! It's a totally pointless goal but once you get in the 90s you start thinking about it. The first foreign country I visited was Taiwan, and the 100th was Luxembourg.
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But the reason why it's not the most important thing for the kind of skills that you saw when you visited us, it at some level I think it comes back to Moravik's paradox. So Morovik's paradox is basically that it's like you know if you know one thing about if you want to know one thing about robotics it's like that's that's the thing. Morovik's paradox says that basically uh in AI the easy things are hard and the hard things are easy.
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