Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
Our identity, our storyline, is created by what we repeat. It becomes what we believe.
Andy HS
Source: Rob Lennon
I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a bit of unconventional -- is *not* to read any papers related to long-context, but to talk to the model
- Talk to the model about a text book, course slides, financial... See more
Yao Fux.comConsistent and profitable growth is never easy, but it’s nearly impossible without the quality, talent, and mindset of its people.
Source: Harvard Business Review / A “Growth-at-All-Costs” Mindset Can Stall Your Company
To create confidence, you need to get started. Every time you act, you bet on yourself and gather evidence that you can do what you set out to do.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
As more human jobs become assisted, automated, or replaced by artificial intelligence, we must spend our hours where we have a competitive advantage over machines: developing new ideas, expressing old things in new ways, innovating process, and crafting the story that infuses our creations with meaning .
Scott Belsky • Creating in The Era of Creative Confidence
A lot of very smart people work in strange ways / with a lot of quirks (e.g. contemplating for hours and appearing to do nothing, while then suddenly having 100x output burst). This usually makes them not a great fit for traditional corporate world, where you often have to fake…
Laura Wendelx.comEven Thomas Watson is reputed to have said, in 1943, “I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
There is no credible evidence that Watson actually made this statement, it is almost certainly apocryphal.
IBM historians say a 1953 stockholders’ meeting is likely the origin: Thomas Watson described a business trip to gauge demand for IBM’s new 701 computer. He said “we expected to get orders for 5 machines,” but they returned with 18 orders.
what I've learned about fear is that if we stop, the only way through it is towards it.
Talks at Google • Bear Grylls | Mental Health & Beyond | Talks at Google
Bear Grylls, former UK Special Forces soldier