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Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can’t make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

In information theory, the cross-entropy between two probability distributions {\displaystyle p} and {\displaystyle q} over the same underlying set of events measures the average number of bits needed to identify an event drawn from the set if a coding scheme used for the set is optimized for an estimated probability distribution {\displaystyle q}, rather than the true distribution {\displaystyle p}.

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You must be willing to suffer the anger of the opponent, and yet not return anger. You must not become bitter. No matter how emotional your opponents are, you must be calm.

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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