Give advice only when asked.
If the only person you can change is yourself, then the one question that matters is: how do you actually get better? Not by winning arguments. You get better by asking others for feedback, again and again, and truly listening to it. It’s the same asking I described earlier, the one clean exception, now turned on myself: I’m the one requesting help, so the advice can finally land. And you cannot do that with an ego in the way. 0
Remember, a good report is like a good layout: it should perform its function (convey information) in the smallest possible area with the least delay and energy (to the reader) possible.
Jan. Rabaey, www.janrabaey.com/digital-i… “Clock Driver” design problem.
register(n.1)
late 14c., registre, “public record book, private account book, an official written account regularly kept,” from Old French registre (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin registrum, regestrum, properly regestum, from Late Latin regesta “list, matters recorded,” noun use of Latin regesta, neuter plural of regestus, past participle of regerere “to record; retort,” literally “to carry back, bring back” from re- “back” (see re-) + gerere “carry, bear” (see gest).
Via etymonline
Driven by curiositas, we become hyperinformed but poorly formed, bonded to each other more through fragile digital networks than shared physical experiences.
(From curiosity):
When LLMs and agents and all of that serve to increase conceptual integrity, because only one person is calling the shots, then the resulting creation might actually be done in less time and be easier to use. But we can do this with people too.
How to Read (Keshav 2007)
- Careful: Title, Abstract, Introduction. Read: Section headings, conclusion, references Scan for: category, context, assumptions, contributions and clarity.
- Careful: figures, diagrams read: all except proofs Scan for: relevant unread references
- Careful: every assumption Read: all Scan for: recreating the work in thought, making the same assumptions as the author.
Derek Sarno’s recipe for beans, with my mods:
1 lb pinto beans, 1 onion. Spices: garlic, olive oil, smoked paprika, granulated garlic/onion, bay leaves, bouillon, salt+pepper.
Soak beans overnight. Drain, rinse. In casserole onion, garlic, olive oil until softened. Add spices, then beans and water, bringing to slow boil, simmering 1-2hrs stirring frequently. Season to taste.
Brothy the first day, thickens naturally the next.
What is the goal? Always ask this question.
When we model a complex system using theory (explanation), we must ignore some details about its nature: the parameters we pick, although good for developing our human intuition, often misses some interaction which is unexplainable or unknowable to us. With a large enough dataset which is trained to produce many parameters purely in a predictive fitting way, there is no room for our biases on what the model should look like. Best we can hope for, all cases in the data are accounted for, but how we got there is now hard to explain.
Change is what breath is to my life: through it I feel what I am clearly.
One way of looking at learning is that you’re copying bits of someone else’s system. If it’s hard (for anyone!) to explain what they’re doing, then you have to copy the whole system to get the same results. When learning an instrument or cooking, at first you have to change your way of doing things.