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Random facts 10 – things I learned recently – “Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments”

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. Maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and maximum optimism the best time to sell.” — John Templeton Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is employed as an optimization algorithm to update the model’s parameters, aiming to minimize the error. … Continue reading Random facts 10 – things I learned recently – “Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments”

Random facts 9 – things I learned recently – Hugh Howey: “I’ll write 2 books a year for 10 years. And at the end of that 10 years I’ll know if I’m a writer.

All of these costs will trend down until eventually it’s just like…the cloud. Like they’re all the same. You might use AWS or Oracle or IBM Cloud, they all have different purposes, but you don’t really care, but there might be lockin. You build your stack on AWS, it’s kinda expensive, you want to switch … Continue reading Random facts 9 – things I learned recently – Hugh Howey: “I’ll write 2 books a year for 10 years. And at the end of that 10 years I’ll know if I’m a writer.

Random facts – things I learned (March 8 2024) – “if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best”

RANDOM FACTS I think he’s a genius because he’s solved a huge problem, which is that writing is really lonely. And it’s brutal to sit down and be by yourself and write. He eliminated it, first, by the dictation, by having the typist. And now he’s totally eliminated it by having a roomful of people. … Continue reading Random facts – things I learned (March 8 2024) – “if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best”

Random facts – things I learned (Feb 23 2024) – “Paleolithic man had to walk five to ten miles on an average day, just to be able to eat.”

RANDOM FACTS For example, patents generally have a 20-year horizon before expiry. Trademarks last for 10 years, can be renewed, and don’t have an automatic expiry. Copyright, on the other hand, has evolving regulation that ensures the holder retains the IP for 70+ years. Paleolithic man had to walk five to ten miles on an … Continue reading Random facts – things I learned (Feb 23 2024) – “Paleolithic man had to walk five to ten miles on an average day, just to be able to eat.”

Random facts – things I learned (Feb 7 2024) – Bryan Johnson: “If you don’t have haters, you want to dial it up”

Prior editions: Jan 26 Jan 12 Dec 30 Dec 15 Dec 7 Random facts: Bryan Johnson: “If you don’t have haters, you want to dial it up” AI+blockchains point to a dystopia of impersonal and faceless interchangeable-parts humanity that’s more industrial than the industrial age. There is an ongoing assault on slow thinking and your … Continue reading Random facts – things I learned (Feb 7 2024) – Bryan Johnson: “If you don’t have haters, you want to dial it up”