January 2010
23 posts
“Encoded in the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the human...”
– Moravec’s paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems...”
– Steve Pinker, quoted in Moravec’s paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system
that represents...”
– Larry Page (Google) as quoted by Paul Graham. Worth remembering next time you make company policy or build a workflow app.
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[bobulate] Confidence for good
bobulate:
I recently did this thing. I co-founded and am now chairing a graduate program. And I did it by taking a considerable leap from a career as a designer that I’d been growing for more than a decade. Sure, my first job out of college was an educator, and I’ve been an educator on the side ever since. But suddenly I’d made it the focus of my everyday.
I’d stepped away from something...
“Nobody (not even the people who say they do) has any idea what Steve will pull...”
– Maxvoltar - Dreaming of an Apple Tablet
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist (via mudd up, peterwknox) (via marco) (via instant-thinkr) (via solipsism)
“Read voraciously, many books at a time. Only then will you hear the conversation...”
– Ways of reading / from a working library
