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Passion: teams focused on delighting customers, being the best at getting better, embrace failure and get stronger because of it. Selflessness: collaborate and share knowledge and code across organization, innersourcing, making space for others’ voices and helping others win. Accountability: own the outcomes even when they’re hard; how you do something is as important as what you do.

The DevOps Handbook

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

In earlier days of neural nets, there tended to be the idea that one should “make the neural net do as little as possible”. For example, in converting speech to text it was thought that one should first analyze the audio of the speech, break it into phonemes, etc. But what was found is that—at least for “human-like tasks”—it’s usually better just to try to train the neural net on the “end-to-end problem”, letting it “discover” the necessary intermediate features, encodings, etc. for itself.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Humans should always retain the freedom to doubt, to check again, to hear a second opinion, to try a different path.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

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