AI has its thinking space, its language output, and harness. The output language could be fake from its thinking, and the harness is set by humans to restrict its behaviors. However, for humans, we only have the language and thinking. Typically, there is no self-imposed harness.
When the market starts to fall and you feel fear, it's easier to have half positions to short and half positions to long rather than an actually better version that only keeps half positions as long.
More companies use "illusion of control": YouTube let people skip their ads, so they are more likely to view the ads they are interested in; software vendors sell open-source software (services), people think the software is safe and transparent. They think they are in control.
Why a "strong will" is bad for your health?
Because if the "will" is too strong, probably the parasympathetic nervous system (like vagus nerve) is suppressed. And the body will work improperly...
We can borrow the idea from Gmail's Trash Box in life: get a big storage box, put unwanted items in it; if we do not use them in 30 days, it time to throw them away.
Scan all the IPv4 addresses and find vulnerabilities, is very similar to some trading strategies, which scan all the stocks and look for patterns. The Internet is so fast now to achieve the goal (also thanks to the novel, powerful scanning tools).
There are two kinds of muscle memory. One is being able to do, like able to swim, able to ride a bike, etc. Another one can be periodically forgotten even though extensively trained before, like basketball shooting, special training for improving swimming, ping pong looping, etc.
Sports also have overfitting, like shooting a basketball, table tennis training, etc. Just like in other machine learning fields such as quant strategy development or malware identification.
Why *restricted* password reminder questions are a bad idea?
Some websites put various restrictions on answers. You have to write something REALLY related to the question.
This is dangerous. Some answers are easy to guess or enumerate. Like favorite car, which city for school..