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so much AI stuff focuses on giving you results without letting you participate in the process, as if the thinking/digging/discovery is purely an obstacle and not the whole point at times
- Accomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.
- the goal is not to like every person we meet. the goal is to like ourselves with every person we meet.
- A lot more people would start a YouTube channel if view counts weren’t visible
For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
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Roku was started at Netflix, but spun out as a new company just before launch in 2008. It now has a market cap of $22B. Was this a mistake? I explore this question in today's @ScreenshotEssay: Roku, Netflix, and the Relationship Between Hardware and Content- dreamers addicted to reality instead of realists addicted to dreams. -Neri Oxman on what she looks for when hiring
"what i want is to live in a way that suits me"
via korean film on the beach at night alone (2017) dir. hong sang-soo
I share this sentiment (from Cristobal Valenzuela, founder of RunwayML), on AI and creativity:
... See moreThe most significant gap in AI research and art does not lie within the models themselves but rather in the approach to art. I have noticed a tendency to oversimplify the creative act. In a research setting, the goal is to control and measure variables, wh
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