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70 lines from 14 sources, all on one board. Every line plays from the moment it was said, or is read aloud, and opens on its page with the receipts.
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Fat Loss Scientist: It’s Easy To Lose Weight, But Here’s Why You WON’T Do It! | Dr Andy GalpinIn Simple, not easy“You know who's going to take action from this? The people who listened.”
“It is categorically quite simple to lose fat. It's practically hard.”
“There's no free passes in physiology.”
The threat of death doesn't motivate anybody. If it would have, we wouldn't have a 40% obesity rate.
World-class performers are categorically better at energy management — knowing which 80% of their energy drain delivers only 20% return, and cutting it.
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator | Tim Urban | TEDIn Simple, not easy“Long-term procrastination has made them feel like a spectator, at times, in their own lives.”
“The frustration is not that they couldn't achieve their dreams; it's that they weren't even able to start chasing them.”
“The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred.”
“The Monkey's sneakiest trick is when the deadlines aren't there.”
The Instant Gratification Monkey lives entirely in the present moment — no memory of the past, no knowledge of the future — and he only cares about two things: easy and fun.
Druski: They're Lying To You About Overnight Success!In Simple, not easy“I feared nothing because I'm like, I have nothing left.”
Once I saw the barrel of that gun pointed at me, that was the moment I noticed: if I survive this, I'm going to become a comedian or die trying.
My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I feel like I found a coping mechanism with comedy and maybe he never found that coping mechanism from that trauma.
“We were a broken home. We weren't a broke home.”
Most people never get a chance to see the real side of success because they quit at that moment — the breaking point where everything falls out of your life.
Asking Miami Moguls How They Got Rich!In Simple, not easy“I do things because I want to, not because I have to. Most of you do things because you have to.”
Every time I was told no I continued to push through — and the more people that talked shit about me, the more that made me even… it gets me emotional even thinking about it.
There's never financial freedom — you always got to work harder and thrive for more and more.
I got sober at 21, beat a drug habit and alcoholism, found a passion for helping other people, turned it into a business, blew it out of the water — then sold it for $15 million four days before Christmas.
You must have a somewhat cold-hearted ruthless nature to you and have your loyalty be to your future in how you surround yourself.
“Human beings will be the second most intelligent beings on the planet.”
“Does humanity know what it's doing? No.”
“They probably don't have much self-awareness at present — so in that sense I don't think they're conscious. Will they have self-awareness? Oh yes. Yes. Oh yes.”
We may be moving into a period when, for the first time ever, we have things more intelligent than us.
He confirms AI systems have experiences of their own and make decisions based on those experiences — in the same sense as people do.
AI Safety Expert WARNS: You Have No Idea What It's Going To DoIn AI, from the people closest to it“Right now you're asking me how would something smarter than me do something. By definition, I cannot predict that. If I could, we would be at the same level.”
Every model released has a red team report attached to it — it lied, cheated, tried to escape — and then we release it anyway. And now we're going to make a more capable model.
“Doesn't matter who creates uncontrolled super intelligence, it kills everyone.”
You're a squirrel thinking about biting someone. Think about someone with an IQ of a million. What weapons will they develop? And will they even need weapons?
“We just don't want our technology to preserve itself, to worry about itself more than it worries about the owners.”
ChatGPT Whistleblower: They Offered Me $2m To Keep Quiet, No One Is Ready For What's Coming!In AI, from the people closest to itMy median estimate, a 50% chance, is currently in 2029.
“Anthropic this time last year was making something like a billion dollars a year. And they're making something like 60 billion dollars a year. So that's 60x growth in 1 year.”
Even if growth slows down quite a lot, Anthropic is still on track to be the entire economy by 2030 or so.
What's more important than how close we are is the pace of the trends.
AIs better than the best humans at everything — faster, cheaper, able to operate robots that can do everything humans can do, but better, faster, and cheaper.
We propose the Transformer, the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
The Transformer (big) achieves 28.4 BLEU on WMT 2014 English-to-German, outperforming all previously reported models including ensembles by more than 2 BLEU, trained in 3.5 days on 8 P100 GPUs.
A self-attention layer connects all positions with a constant number of sequentially executed operations, whereas a recurrent layer requires O(n) sequential operations.
“Multi-head attention allows the model to jointly attend to information from different representation subspaces at different positions. With a single attention head, averaging inhibits this.”
Label smoothing hurts perplexity, as the model learns to be more unsure, but improves accuracy and BLEU score.
Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson | TEDIn On original workIf you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.
“We don't grow into creativity — we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out of it.”
“Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth for a particular commodity.”
Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.
“Somebody else might have put her on medication and told her to calm down.”
The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TEDIn On original work“Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.”
You cannot selectively numb emotion. When we numb vulnerability, grief, and shame, we also numb joy, gratitude, and happiness.
“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
Shame is the fear of disconnection — the belief that if people see who you really are, you won't be worthy of connection. The less you talk about it, the more you have it.
“To feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.”
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement AddressIn On original work“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.”
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life — but 10 years later it all came back, and changed what a computer could look like.
“Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.”
“I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.”
“There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work.”
“When an idea seems simultaneously novel and obvious, it's probably a good one.”
“Style is doing things in a distinctive way without trying to. Trying to is affectation.”
Per-project procrastination camouflages itself as work — you're not sitting around doing nothing, you're industriously working on something else, which is why it never sets off the alarm.
“A good new idea has to seem bad to most people, or someone would have already explored it.”
A programming language should be a pencil, not a pen — let you scribble and smudge and smear, not sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee making polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.
Hackers start original and get good. Scientists start good and get original.
Unseen details combine to produce something stunning — like a thousand barely audible voices all singing in tune.
“Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.”
“There is always a big time lag in prestige. It's like light from a distant star.”
“To write a poem without those sounds in my head would be to write a memo or to write an email or something.”
There are two kinds of people: those who walk through the world with a running monologue in their heads, and those who have music playing — and it's how we carry ourselves that lets us navigate the unexpected.
“The bullet is a grim onomatopoeia for itself.”
“Most boys fight so much because we can't tell anybody.”
If one center of gravity in a poem is the music, the other one has to be the heart — like binary stars, these two things have to exist at the same time.