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The AI faces... wow.
edit: I reverse image searched one of the faces and found this, https://bgr.com/2018/12/18/nvidia-ai-fake-faces-look-100-per...
It's not generating them from whole cloth, but it's still very impressive.
> Instead of arbitrarily memorizing things, look for the explanation that makes it obvious. This is a higher learning method that I’ve always found most natural. I don’t memorize stuff, I try to understand it instead. That said, there is still great value in the classical learning model—if you don’t know the terminology of the subject it’s difficult to reason about that subject.
I've had the same thing. It was impossible for me to remember complex mathematical equations in school until I figured out how to derive them myself. That didn't help me with integration, sadly. Same with history: years are meaningless. What's interesting is how historical events follow from earlier events and lead to later events.
That's also how I learned what history I know. The trouble with that is not knowing how differently themed events are positioned relative to each other in time. For example, I don't know how events of political history linked to events of computer history.
The AI faces... wow.
I'd love to see a source on that one, it's hard to believe otherwise. edit: I reverse image searched one of the faces and found this, https://bgr.com/2018/12/18/nvidia-ai-fake-faces-look-100-per... It's not generating them from whole cloth, but it's still very impressive.
Whenever there is a market fad/phenomena with low or no barriers and a flood of entrants—the best strategy is often: Be the arms dealer. The lowest profile players in high-profile, low-barrier industries are almost always the most profitable. Don't sell wine, sell barrels. Don't make movies, create animation software. Don't own restaurants, build the restaurant supply company. I ALWAYS KNEW IT!
During a gold rush, don’t dig for gold, sell shovels!
Two points: 1) Jeff Bezos' quote on the fridge is the maximum of lame. This is the guy that treats his employees really well and cares about them more than about his personal wealth, right? 2) Avoid boring people. Why? Some people are just boring through no fault of their own. A series of misfortunes brought them into that stage. There are stuff to learn from boring people to and they deserve attention and love like…
>Avoid boring people My experience is that this one-off is generally used as a way to be a dick to people who live a life you don't agree with, or that is opposed to your own. I have yet to meet a boring person. Everyone is a hot weirdo when you really get to know them. It's a matter of overcoming your own ego and realizing that your 'boring' is just another way of living. Subsequently, those sort of bullshit phrases…
By default, I assume "boring" is a verb. Maybe it says something about the reader whether they see a verb or an adjective.
"To survive a Northern winter, bees change the composition of the swarm by shrinking the overall population, caulking the hive, getting rid of the deadweight males (i.e., ALL of the males), and laying just enough eggs to preserve a minimal survivable population through the winter and into spring. They cluster together in the center of the hive, keeping the queen in the center, shivering their wings to create kinetic…
I think this was Ray Dalio in his TED talk.
It is your fault if you cant find what it is interesting in others.
> Instead of arbitrarily memorizing things, look for the explanation that makes it obvious. This is a higher learning method that I’ve always found most natural. I don’t memorize stuff, I try to understand it instead. That said, there is still great value in the classical learning model—if you don’t know the terminology of the subject it’s difficult to reason about that subject.
Hmm, perhaps we’re talking about different things but I don’t mind memorizing the alphabet of a language or (partly) its vocabulary but the pronunciation is best learned in terms of its fundamental components and to an extent, so is the vocabulary. Fortunately, most things in modern life require no active memorization. You use and you remember. But if I were to learn Hindi, I would memorize the basic glyphs of Devana…