Links
These are some interesting articles that I’ve found. Give them a read.
- ⇝ https://cpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/faculty.sites.uci.edu/dist/2/51/files/2018/03/NYorker2002-blowingup.pdfby The Oatmeal
How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy.
- ⇝ https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
This article is about the value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, and hidden in plain sight all around us.
- ⇝ https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2410
The mere act of saying something publicly can change the world—even if everything you said was already obvious to every last one of your listeners.
- ⇝ https://boz.com/articles/failure-theory
..Effectively the chances of small failures has decreased slightly but the chances of catastrophic failures has gone way up [….] the more edifice you build to prevent minor failures the larger the capacity you create for catastrophic ones
- ⇝ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
- ⇝ http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.htmlby Paul Graham
“If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters”
- ⇝ http://highscalability.com/blog/2021/8/2/evolution-of-search-engines-architecture-algolia-new-search.htmlby Julien Lemoine • distributed-systems
- ⇝ https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/2021/07/11/diffusion-models.htmlby Lilian Weng • probability-theory