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Ian Malpass, an engineer at Etsy observes, In that moment when we do something that causes the entire site to go down, we get this “ice-water down the spine” feeling, and likely the first thought through our head is, “I suck and I have no idea what I’m doing.” We need to stop ourselves from doing that, as it is route to madness, despair, and feelings of being an imposter, which is something that we can’t let happen to good engineers. The better question to focus on is, “Why did it make sense to me when I took that action?”

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race. This thought determined the entire direction of Ye’s life.

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

When we start talking about “semantic grammar” we’re soon led to ask “What’s underneath it?” What “model of the world” is it assuming? A syntactic grammar is really just about the construction of language from words. But a semantic grammar necessarily engages with some kind of “model of the world”—something that serves as a “skeleton” on top of which language made from actual words can be layered.

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... And Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

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