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Step one: Train a model to understand the relationships between words based on how often they appear in similar contexts. “A word is categorized by the company it keeps.” Feed it a ton of human-written data (and when I say a ton, I essentially mean the entire internet), and let it nudge word coordinates around appropriately.
We need to transform all the “stuff” we’ve attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Henry Brandt pulled Buffett into a separate room and asked him to promise that Berkshire stock wouldn’t drop below $40. By October 1975, the stock had been cut in half after trading at $93 just two years before. “Look, I love you,” Buffett recalls saying, “but I can’t promise you that.” “The world is ending,” said Brandt, or words to that effect. “I’ve got every dollar I own in this stock.”
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
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