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There is a blog post by Peter Seibel: Let a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots. It has inspired other posts, for example (2) As a hobby Lisper I learned abo…

I can't understand this life style. To be the best at thinking deeply I need my mind to relax and focus in the goal, so to obtain a flux that point me in the direction to progress.…

Recently I read somewhere that people prefer "potential" to "factual value". For example some prefer a potential Oscar film rather than a film awarded an Oscar. So perhaps the new …

Nice from one student: "I’m not worried about AI getting to where we are now. I’m much more worried about the possibility of us reverting to where AI is."

In 10.4 A/B testing is just a list with several points and there is not warning about having a deep understanding. For example, the point of selecting a sample is not easy, if you …

> I am working with people that don't understand even the basics (such as a survey with 49 responses means that the margin of error is over 10% I don't understand this, if the popu…

When there is a small amount of information the variance of any estimation is very big and this explains what happens in that example. Overfitting implies a different behavior in t…