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the stoic philosopher Seneca: “He is a great man who uses earthenware dishes as if they were silver; but he is equally great who uses silver as if it were earthenware. It is the sign of an unstable mind not to be able to endure riches.”

10,000 Hours With Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives

Jimmy Soni

Morphosyntax is the diference between a sentence and a bag of words.

Linguistic Fundamentals for Natural Language Processing 100 Essentials From Morphology and Syntax by Emily M. Bender

z-lib.org

My failure to anticipate this, I realized, was due to my being surprised by something that hadn't happened in my lifetime, though it had happened many times before. The message that reality was conveying to me was You better make sense of what happened to other people in other times and other places because if you won't know if these things can happen to you and, if they do, you won't know how to deal with them.

Principles

Ray Dalio

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