He says that ultimately, about 50% of participants who were screened to be part of the control group couldn’t be included because of continuing symptoms.

The costs of discouraging learning are borne mostimmediately by individuals.

Give technical teams more time for collaboration and documentation, and makedocumentation “count.” Simply put, documentation and other “mundane” tasks of knowledgesharing were the first sacrifice to time pressure.

Roam Command Palette

It was only by building an additional AI-powered safety mechanism that OpenAI would be able to rein in that harm, producing a chatbot suitable for everyday use.

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documentation as part of the planned costs of dataset creation, andonly collect as much data as can be thoroughly documented withinthat budget.

Their investigation of GPT-2’s training data17also finds 272K documents from unreliable newssites and 63K from banned subreddits

Was all this difficulty worth it? Did Robin and his sister receive a better education at the suburban school? According to him, no. The overcrowded school he went to in Harlem was more academically challenging than the suburban one he was bused to in Seattle.

It’s almost like an identity crisis in a way, where you’re trying to cope and also potentially let it go. And just, well, if this isn't the place for me to do this, I have to come to terms with that as well.

Grace Lee Boggs

Emergent Strategy

Deploy engines as separate app instances and have them only communicate over network boundaries. This is something we’re starting to do more.

Solving the gargantuan challenge posed by complex chronic diseases demands seismic shifts in research funding, medical training, and public attitudes.

only by examining a constellation of metrics in tension can we understand and influence developer productivity

Glenn Greenwald

National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, Caring for Your Collections. Edited by Arthur W. Schultz. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1992

When a product manager trusts that the engineers on the team have the interest of the product at heart, they also trust the engineer’s judgment when adding technical tasks to the backlog and prioritizing them. This enables the balanced mix of feature and technical work that we’re aiming for.

Rigor is what happens when something inside us dies

we need to be sincerely willing to explicitly name the problems we’re trying to face

It’s not so dangerous for us to remember that history and for us to get strength from it.

human beings are human beings, meaning they work together, and they help each other, and care about each other