Quotes
by Johann Van Tonder · updated 22d ago
Quotes
by Johann Van Tonder · updated 22d ago
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
Johann Van Tonder added 5mo ago
“When you’re trying to be original, you sound like everyone else trying to be original.” - Dan Klein
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
One way to think about (LLM) is that about 3 years ago, aliens landed on Earth. They handed over a USB stick and then disappeared. Since then we’ve been poking the thing they gave us with a stick, trying to figure out what it does and how it works.
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
If the problem is caused by the thinking mind, it won’t be solved with the thinking mind - always not good enough, internal story lines etc
Andy Headspace
Johann Van Tonder added 2mo ago
If we strip everything else away, the reason we need an ability to learn is to help us find and obtain food. We need fuel to learn, and we need learning to find a source of fuel…’ (Ratey & Hagerman, 2009).
Johann Van Tonder added 1mo ago
What I like most about deadlines is the whistling sound they make when the pass by.
Johann Van Tonder added 22d ago
Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i
... See moreJohann Van Tonder added 3mo ago
“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.”
OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI code
Johann Van Tonder added 3mo ago
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”
Charlie Wardle
Johann Van Tonder added 6mo ago
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
Johann Van Tonder added 4mo ago