@AkkoAkane The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things;
the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.
- Panchatantra, c. 5th c.
@joepease Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.
@razorfist Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
@jvanegue The big lie we tell to young people (and that I bought too) is that advances in theory drive practice. This is exceedingly rare; in almost all cases advances in practice drive the supporting theory later.
@critica18495985 Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor hidden. How, then, do we dare insist that evildoers to not exist? And who was it that destroyed these millions?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A movement opposes science when it doesn't want assertions tested, challenges arithmetic when its claims don't add up, ridicules 'merit' when it wants to triumph by other means, seeks to censor when it fears discussion.
Those who coddle such demands sow the seeds of our undoing.
One of the more interesting aspects of the Trump experience is the increased understanding that the primary purpose the state is to constrain popular will, not to manifest it.
It’s embarrassing and infuriating that some #NIPS2017 authors couldn’t get visas to present their work. USA should be leading through enlightened example, not disgusting racism. We lose when we can’t attract the top AI minds, whatever they look like and wherever they’re born