Mike S
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Mike S
On this ship I was a child again, knowing no more of the world around me than a child does.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Education, learning, epistemology
suffer the children
Fall Scenes
IV.
Sharp crunch of acorns cracking
underfoot on path we’re walking
calls to mind the sounds of crackling
kindling in the winter
that’s coming, but we try avoiding
speaking it as rather we would
take our leisure by enjoying
color-filled, crisp saunter.
poetry and gold and dross
That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is, (of course,) that their modern philosophies are so half-baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
they were too much troubled and knocked about to learn; they could no more do that to advantage, than any one can do anything to advantage in a life of constant misfortune, torment, and worry.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Quotes on Models and Their Uses and Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
live upon their wits (or not so much, perhaps, upon the presence of their own wits as upon the absence of wits in other people)
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
A well-designed algorithm could detect the signs that a call center rep is losing it and do something about it, such as send the rep a relaxing video montage of photos of their family set to music.
First Horizon is using artificial intelligence and such video "resets" to bring a state of calm and well-being
First Horizon is using artificial intelligence and such video "resets" to bring a state of calm and well-being
The AI bringing zen to First Horizon's call centers
Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”
Robert Jordan • The Shadow Rising
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
Wise Woman of the Aiel
the main principle of art, the principle which is in most danger of being forgotten in our time. I mean the fact that art consists of limitation; the fact that art is limitation. Art does not consist in expanding things. Art consists of cutting things down,