“More data here means less of a chance of seeing an unusual string of events that does not represent the true underlying probabilities, such as a sequence of rolls of a die being all sixes.” #BookSky #Books

“The essence of Lenin's speeches during this period was "They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet." And it was.” #BookSky #Books

“A man thinks he can fly, but he is afraid to jump. A poor friend pushes him from behind.” He looks up at me. “A good friend jumps with.” #BookSky #Books

“There’s no undisputed definition of “consciousness.” I use the broad and non-anthropocentric definition consciousness = subjective experience.” #BookSky #Books

“The thing is to win by sensing the opponents’ rhythms and knowing where they break down.” #BookSky #Books

“Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.” #BookSky #Books

“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror; to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.” #BookSky #Books

“Hyperbolic discounting has been put forward as a reason why people run up credit card debts, eat unhealthy foods, have unprotected sexual relations, and fail to save for retirement.” #BookSky #Books

“It’s because they’re empty that they do my will. My will can control anything that’s empty.” #BookSky #Books

“Think of Ethereum as a smart phone where you can download and run applications, while the Bitcoin blockchain is a landline phone exclusively used to make and receive calls.” #BookSky #Books

“It’s not the Department of Commerce, the Bush official told him in so many words. It’s the Department of Science and Technology.” #BookSky #Books

“National populists are eternity politicians. Their preferred reference point is the era when democratic republics seemed vanquished and their Nazi and Soviet rivals unstoppable: the 1930s.” #BookSky #Books

“And the equal sign, =, is formed by two parallel lines because, as its originator, Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, wrote in 1557, “no two things can be more equal.” #BookSky #Books

“By challenging them to show more scars on their bodies than he had on his, Alexander was shaming his men.” #BookSky #Books

“It is impossible to prove that data is truly missing at random, and it is unlikely that missingness is truly random in most real-world occurrences.” #BookSky #Books

“Among these proofs were those that showed that perceptrons would converge upon a solution if one existed, “solution” being defined as a hyperplane that linearly separated the data into two groups.” #BookSky #Books

“In a famous experiment conducted in 1975, two psychologists found that when we have to predict an exponential process, we often underestimate it by factor of 10.” #BookSky #Books

“As of this writing, the estimated one million BTC that he mined during the first year of Bitcoin’s existence has never been transacted.” #BookSky #Books

“Here’s what else I want to know: How many people are insisting that their friends and colleagues use it? As in right now.” #BookSky #Books

“What you want to avoid are variable annuities and equity annuities, which are also called indexed annuities.” #BookSky #Books

“Intensification of production to feed an increased population leads to a still greater increase in population.’ Peter Farb said it in Humankind.” #BookSky #Books

“The autocorrelation of a sample of white noise will have a value of approximately 0 at all lags other than 0.” #BookSky #Books

“The Hermetic Teachings are to the effect that the difference between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is merely a matter of degree.” #BookSky #Books

“The fourth defining feature of sleep is that it’s easily reversible, differentiating it from coma, anesthesia, hibernation, and death.” #BookSky #Books

“Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” #BookSky #Books

“From the widespread belief in God, and Santa, Sam drew a conclusion: it was possible for almost everyone to be self-­evidently wrong about something.” #BookSky #Books

“The mistake I see people making in their online sales letters is offering bonuses that are not related to the product that they’re selling and that don’t enhance the value of their product.” #BookSky #Books

“Any foreign occupation would so ethically judge its opposition. However, in such conflict, neither protagonist is concerned with any value except victory. It is life or death.” #BookSky #Books

“Crossentropy is a quantity from the field of Information Theory that measures the distance between probability distributions or, in this case, between the ground-truth distribution and your predictions.” #BookSky #Books

“If someone’s intentions are good but their action still has a bad side effect, are they as much to blame as someone who intentionally causes harm?” #BookSky #Books