Claude Shannon's "The Bandwagon" (1956) is a timeless gem.
Short, one page advise and perspective on the status of the field.
"... we must keep our own house in first class order. The subject of information theory has certainly been sold, if not oversold."
I enjoyed speaking with @BuiltInNewYork on how to build a DevOps first culture and methodology that works! Read about the DevOps culture at @paige_ai and other great NYC companies, here: https://t.co/BwglFnxTj6 #devops#engineering
I’ve been trying to find the right words, but silence isn’t an option. Black Lives Matter. I stand with our Black employees, customers, and community in the fight against racism and violence, and I urge us all to do the same.
Today on US Google & YouTube homepages we share our support for racial equality in solidarity with the Black community and in memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery & others who don’t have a voice. For those feeling grief, anger, sadness & fear, you are not alone.
If you ever have moments of uncomfortable silence when teaching a class, remember that there was once a 130-minute pause during armistice negotiations in the Korean War.
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes.", a quote from Star Wars lately re-struck a chord with me. It's so tempting to view matters like a Sith in search for simplicity. However, one must be careful not to crush necessary subtleties and important distinctions in the mid air.
Nobel laureate, and Royal Society President, Venki Ramakrishnan, has written the best single paragraph explanation of why we need to wear masks that I've seen yet.
Read it, and share it. My mask protects you. Your mask protects me. #Masks4All
https://t.co/OLDjZuUVNo
🤔 Wonder what it costs to host an 8x NVIDIA® V100 Tensor Core with NVLink™ server on-prem?
8 x NVIDIA V100 Lambda Hyperplane-8 🆚 AWS p3dn.24xlarge instance
No surprise...the co-located server is way less expensive:
This analogously goes for programming. One must be sufficiently and consistently aware of his or her own limitations. When practiced, a lot of good things come out of the healthy insecurity because one looks for improvement.
In investing, people often talk about risks in alpha vs. beta where alpha is intrinsic to an individual stock and beta to the entire market. Practically, there should be one more, like gamma, that talks about the risk intrinsic to the individual making a judgment.
Developing an eye for distinguishing ephemeral knowledge vs. long-standing knowledge is not that hard. Developing a muscle to resist relying on ephemeral stuff for short term gains is very hard for that requires conscious efforts.
I started to think being humble is a passive quality: a corollary to knowing concretely what better examples are out there. If someone seems arrogant, it may be that that person is just not aware enough.