Matt M
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Matt M
... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indifference and to corrupt moral soundness. Glaring inequalities in condition create discontent and strain the democratic relation. The vicious are the willing, and the ignorant are unconscious
Charles Evans Hughes - Wikiquote
My great deeds speak for themselves. I vetoed the Reconstruction acts; I vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau; I vetoed civil liberty; I vetoed Stanton; I vetoed everything & everybody that the malignant Northern hordes approved; I hugged traitors to my bosom; I pardoned them by regiments & brigades... I smiled upon the Ku-Klux, I delivered the Uni... See more
Review: Ron Chernow's “Mark Twain” Biography
Mark Twain in a letter that was killed by New York Tribune editors.
bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) {
return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976;
}
return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976;
}
A leap year check in three instructions
This is not a problem that is limited to Facebook or even social media, as figuring out how to make automated systems responsive to our values, rather than blindly following a reasonable objective function, is a pervasive question, often referred to as value alignment. It underlies questions about whether optimizing for GDP and stock price is actually good for society and has become even more critical as AI-driven systems create myriad optimization opportunities that all have the potential to go wrong (e.g. balancing safety vs. efficiency of self-driving cars, cost vs. health benefit for managing health resources, worker productivity vs. well-being for the gig economy).
There’s a certain comfort in the realm of infinite possibility. When a project is ongoing, it can be anything. It’s Schrödinger’s1 project — simultaneously perfect and flawed until you actually finish it and put it out into the world. The moment you declare a project “done,” you open it up to criticism, both external and internal. What if it’s not ... See more
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
If you are riffing out loud, show that you’re not 100% sure either. Be explicit and invite others to point out where they see things differently.
Wes Kao • Tone and words: Use accurate language
🚀 Embrace MVP : Instead of aiming for perfection, I’ll aim for “good enough.”
Tomas Stropus • The Art of Finishing
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worth while or it may be worthless. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than Go
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