December 2014If the world were static, we could have monotonically increasing
confidence in our beliefs. The more (and more varied) experience
a belief survived, the...
January 2015Corporate Development, aka corp dev, is the group within companies
that buys other companies. If you're talking to someone from corp
dev, that's why, whether...
January 2015My father is a mathematician. For most of my childhood he worked
for Westinghouse, modelling nuclear reactors.He was one of those lucky people who...
September 2017The most valuable insights are both general and surprising.
F = ma for example. But general and surprising is a hard
combination to achieve. That territory...
or Read on Github (I recommend actually running the notebook, either on your own computer or Colab).
This is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's Micrograd,...
November 2019If you discover something new, there's a significant chance you'll be
accused of some form of heresy.To discover new things, you have
to work on...
December 2019The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you
learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.When I...
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