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"what is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?"
@karpathy @abhi_venigalla @MosaicML Something helpful I learned years ago was to determine the minimum number of operations required to perform a compute task. Then work to get as close to that as possible.
Jax Destinyx.comSeth advises:“My suggestion is whenever possible, ask yourself what’s the smallest possible footprint I can get away with?... What is the smallest possible project that is worth my time? ... What is the smallest group of people who I could make a difference for or to? Because smallest is achievable
Tim Ferriss • STEP 2 — BIG ROCKS AND THE NOTHING - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
“If you’re having trouble sticking to a new habit, try a smaller version until it becomes automatic. Do less than you’re capable of, but do it more consistently than you have before.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to stick to a new habit, how to handle criticism, and 4 types of wealth
to minimize the action we want to make the kinetic energy as small as we can.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
MiniMax Agent: Minimize Effort, Maximize Intelligence
MiniMax Agent: Minimize Effort, Maximize Intelligence
minimizing “minus the potential” seems easy enough—just travel up to somewhere where V(x) is really high, so –V(x) is really low.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
lowest-fidelity version of an intervention that will still result in behavior change.