Sublime

Ergodic systems, in other words, exhibit a particularly safe and comforting sort of statistical regularity.

Andy Grove does the math and shows that the opposite is true: Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform. Consider for a moment the possibility of your putting on a series of four lectures for members of your department. Let’s count on three hours preparation for each hour of course time—twelve hours of

HOW COULD WE CHANGE THE PROBLEM STATEMENT TO MAKE THE SOLUTION DIFFERENT?

A ring network allows for small, sensible errors.

We never get rid of problems. Problems, solutions, and new problems weave an endless chain.

The value is in doing things in a different way more than doing something fancy.

The worst-case provides an upper bound on the running time. This is critical in situations where there is a time constraint on how long a computation can take.

“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search … a little theory and a little calculation would have saved him 90 percent of his labor.”