Author: Kelvin Ang

Nothing actually matters in the end.

Let that give you the courage to be free.

Study the actions of any single person and you’ll find chaos and unpredictability. Study the collective actions of thousands of people and order starts to emerge. The more humans participating, and the longer the time horizon, the more predictable it is. The human race evolves quickly in science and technology, but the fear and greed built into our genome will keep us predictable for hundreds and thousands of years to come.

First, do something that impresses yourself

Then, do it 10 times better

Otherwise, don’t bother

Mistakes are key to escaping the local minima of known art, and is an essential component of true creativity. A perfect machine that can’t make mistakes against it’s own established knowledge can’t create. General intelligence therefore must be imperfect, and be allowed to make mistakes.

Programs are instructions for computers

Processes are instructions for humans

A software engineer is good in the former, but an engineer is good in both

The poor engineer makes good technologies.

The rich engineer makes good products.

…are the hardest to find.

It’s not how you work with the time you have, but how you make the time you have work for you.

…is a neural network’s way of accepting and working on its flaws.

That’s why they learn and excel.

Be like a neural network.

You don’t win all the time.

It’s more about the k/d.