The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they show up.
This can't be taught directly. It's cultivated through curiosity and broad reading.
fascinating take on AI by Adam Curtis: "We are haunted, It's the haunting. AI is not the future, it's the final end of the past. it's the moment the past came for us, we will have to escape from it." youtube.com/watch?v=SM9hRu…
There is a version of you that is so clean that it is immune to compulsions, cravings and outbursts.
There a version of you that is so clean that it holds no prejudice or political opinion.
Key to research success: ambition in vision, but pragmatism in execution. You must be guided by a long-term, ambitious goal that addresses a fundamental problem, rather than chasing incremental gains on established benchmarks. Yet, your progress should be grounded by tractable…
the secret ingredient in yoga, tai chi, dance, fighting, and ultimately any movement is that if you continuously move intentionally as one irreducible system, it’s very hard to remain a fragmented ego
@erikbryn Too often, we think a task is easy because some animal can do it.
But the reality is that the task is fiendishly complex and the animal is much smarter than we think.
Conversely, we think tasks like playing chess, calculating an integral, or producing grammatically correct text…
Can we rebuild the moral foundations of the humanities and academia in general? It needs to be normal for doctors, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, legal scholars, historians, artists to disagree with majority opinions when their intellectual dignity demands it
I know it's easy to feel disempowered in the face of rapid change. But there are only two options -- you can give up, or you can exercise your agency and try to regain control. Only one of these options is valid.
Look at their forked tongues for chemical edge/gradient detection, and a "membrane bolometer" inside their pit organ for IR detection. https://t.co/RayTTlDHkE
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