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Ergodic systems, in other words, exhibit a particularly safe and comforting sort of statistical regularity.

Summarization: Given a large amount of text, the model generates a summary of the main points. Paraphrasing: Given a text, the model generates a rephrasing of the text in its own words.

The inadequacy of the answers we receive is a direct consequence of the limitations implicit in the viewpoints of the questioner.

Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!

Base rates—or the frequency of something in a general population—matter when it comes to asking the right questions.

Ninth, because the Shah didn’t have riot police, he frequently deployed the army to stop demonstrations, but the army was not prepared for that, and sometimes demonstrators were killed. This fired people up against the regime, but Pahlavi didn’t want to overuse force. The result was a deployment of the army who couldn’t use its weapons to quell

ALWAYS FOLLOW UP We all meet people but we rarely take the time to follow up and actually begin a friendship. Analyzing eight million phone calls between two million people, researchers at Notre Dame found that what makes close friendships endure is simply staying in touch every two weeks.

Key insight: Just a handful of the right people paying attention to your work can transform your career security and opportunities.