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This, too, is evolution at work. It’s not that evolution ever lets us stop playing the “get more resources” game, it’s that our strategy evolves. Once baseline needs are met, you can devote yourself to ways to get, well, you guessed it, seriously more resources—for yourself, for your family, for your tribe, for your species. As high-minded as
... See moreSteven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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Ergodic systems, in other words, exhibit a particularly safe and comforting sort of statistical regularity.
Warren Weaver • The Mathematical Theory of Communication
That, in a nutshell, is the scientific method: understand and frame the problem; observe; hypothesize (or imagine)…
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
.implementation all the steps in a required order to formulate a hypothesis
The greatest secret to having a powerful memory is bringing information to life with your endless imagination.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
(1) thinking ahead, or viewing the situation as just one moment on a larger, longer timeline and being able to identify it as just one point to get past in order to reach a better future point; (2) being specific and setting specific goals, or defining your end point as discretely as possible and pooling your attentional resources as specifically
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Feynman phrases it thus: “Imagination in a tight straightjacket.” To him, the straightjacket is the laws of physics. To Holmes, it is essentially the same thing: that base of knowledge and observation that you’ve acquired to the present time. Never is it simply a flight of fancy; you can’t think of imagination in this context as identical to the
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It all depends on how well organized my attic is—how I encoded the memory to begin with, what cues are prompting its retrieval now, how methodical and organized my thought process is from start to finish.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
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Sometimes we just need to realize that even if we are certain we aren’t biased in any way, that nothing extraneous is affecting our judgments and choices, chances are that we are not acting in an entirely rational or objective fashion. In that realization—that oftentimes it is best not to trust your own judgment—lies the key to improving your
... See moreMaria Konnikova • Mastermind
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• Instructions / System Prompt: An initial set of instructions that define the behavior of the model during a conversation, can/should include examples, rules ….
• User Prompt: Immediate task or question from the user.
• State / History (short-term Memory): The current conversation, including user and model responses that have led to this moment.
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Philipp Schmid • The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering
Context engineering components and definitions