Charlie Munger on how to live a successful life:
“I think personal discipline, personal morality, good colleagues, good ideas..all the simple stuff…All of those old virtues, they all work.”
In April 1945 American forces seized the German V-2 engine test stands at the Lehesten slate quarry in Thuringia and restarted static firings of the captured motors on the existing benches. They measured thrust output, combustion stability, and overall reliability under controlled conditions. The tests also let ordnance teams document the hardware and procedures before the site passed into Soviet hands later that summer.
From the Mittelwerk plant the United States shipped out components sufficient for about 100 complete rockets, later assembling and launching 67 of them at White Sands.
Britain received the remaining parts after the American haul and assembled eight rockets for its own tests, while Soviet forces took what was left in their zone and assembled roughly 30 for launches at Kapustin Yar.
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.
—Professor Richard Feynman
Charlie Munger: "There is an old German proverb I've always liked and it says, 'Man is too soon old and too late smart.' And that's true whether you're Benjamin Franklin or Joe Klutz. We all live with that problem."
"If we got a chance to do [our lives] again, we would do it better. However, the number of people who ever got a chance to do it again is zero."
(Daily Journal AGM || 2021)
Rita Moreno performing "Fever" on the Muppet Show with Animal on drums which originally aired almost 50 years ago in the UK on September 12, 1976 and in New York on September 20, 1976 which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.
A Neural Sheet Discovers the Shape of Data
A self-organizing map (SOM) starts as a flat sheet of neurons with no knowledge of the data around it. For every input sample, it finds the best-matching neuron,
c = argminᵢ ‖x - wᵢ‖,
and updates that neuron together with its neighbours,
wᵢ ← wᵢ + η(t)hᶜᵢ(t)(x - wᵢ).
As the neighbourhood radius shrinks during training, the sheet gradually bends and folds onto the hidden geometry of the dataset while preserving its neighbourhood structure.
Developed by Finnish computer scientist Teuvo Kohonen, the Self-Organizing Map remains one of the most elegant examples of competitive learning, where order emerges from thousands of simple local updates.
#MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #SelfOrganizingMap #NeuralNetworks #DataVisualization #Mathematics #ComputerScience #Finland #TeuvoKohonen
Historia, memoria y metal paraguayo resonando ante el mundo 🎸🇵🇾
🤘 Kuazar llevó la historia paraguaya al escenario de uno de los festivales de metal más importantes de Europa
🌟 La banda esteña se presentó por primera vez en el Graspop Metal Meeting de Bélgica, compartiendo cartel con artistas como Megadeth, Limp Bizkit, Def Leppard y Bring Me The Horizon.
🗣️ Antes de interpretar "Machete che pópe", el vocalista Josema González explicó al público europeo el contexto histórico de la Batalla de Acosta Ñu y recordó el sacrificio de los niños paraguayos durante la Guerra de la Triple Alianza.
#Ñanduti
Mijns inziens is dit een van de beste use cases voor AI-videocontent op dit moment. Een AI-influencer reist terug in de tijd naar 1536 om te vloggen over haar ervaringen in Tudor-Londen.
Charlie Munger: “All good investing is value investing, by definition. There are just various places to fish for value investments.
And as the world gets tougher, you have to fish in places you didn't fish before.”
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business.”
— Warren Buffett
تخيل عزيزي البني آدم 😌
إنك أقرب في الحجم إلى الكون المنظور بأكمله منك إلى أصغر شيء في الوجود (اللي هو طول بلانك) بحوالي 200 مليون مرة 😌
أبسط لك المسألة بحسبة بدو :
♦️أنت أكبر من طول بلانك ب 35^10 مرة (واحد وقدامه 35 صفر)
♦️الكون المنظور أكبر منك ب 26^10 مرة
→ لوغاريتمياً أنت أقرب للكون بفارق 8 رتب كاملة 🥰
طبعاً راح تسألني شنو (طول بلانك)؟
هذا طال عمرك هو (بكسل الكون)
أصغر مسافة لها معنى فيزيائي
(-35^10 متر)
إذا حاولت تقيس أي شي أصغر منه، راح تحتاج طاقة هائلة تخلق ثقب أسود يبتلع أداة القياس نفسها 😅
الكون حرفياً ما راح يسمح لك تشوف شي أقل من طول بلانك
الزبدة ،، أنا وأنت وباقي البني آدمين حجمنا أقرب لحجم الكون المنظور، لأن اللي يفصلنا عن القاع المتناهي الصغر هوة أعمق بكثير
والله أعظم وأعلم ☝🏼
Ever seen the film A Beautiful Mind?
The mathematician that film was based on, John Nash, has one of the shortest PhD dissertations ever published: ‘Non-Cooperative Games’.
It has a grand total of 26 pages, and only cites two references.
That thesis went on to found the basis for his paper on the development of game theory, for which he won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics.