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Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now let us bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People. Now our minds are one.

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Elisa Baniassad and Alexander Summers have this great paper [Reframing the Liskov Substitution Principle through the Lens of Testing](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~alexsumm/papers/BaniassadSummers21.pdf) , where they teach LSP as “the superclasses test suite should automatically be runnable, and pass, on the child class.” Go read it, it’s great.

When to Prefer Inheritance to Composition

Hillel Wayne

My tentative theory here is that a well-run crowdsourced project has less need of AI assistance than an individual, because it is already "superintelligent" through the human network interactions, with fewer gaps in knowledge and expertise that need to be plugged by AI.

Terence Tao

Terence Tao

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