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  Mozart the type of guy to spend 8 bars introducing a concept, and 32 bars closing it over and over

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  My office provides two brands of coffee to employees of two different qualities (which I will label "expensive" and "cheap"). So my colleagues did a double blind study to find which one is best. They found out not only there was not a statistical difference in preference, people also couldn't tell which one they were drinking.

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  In my quest to become an excellent data scientist, I've suffocated all my other talents and hobbies. Drawing, guitar, sports, foreign languages. I thought I couldn't have these because they consumed too much space in my mind. Turns out I was wrong. I just didn't know enough about practicing those skills. A few months ago I restarted guitar practice, with modest success. Recently I restarted learning Polish. Next will be pen and ink, and lastly baseball. On my way to b...

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  Sometimes I take for granted that the problems of language translation, access to information, and navigation are pretty much solved. Not in a small part thanks to Google researchers, but also to brilliant people in the last decades. I think we're pretty much closing the gap of language-based cognition, which solves a whole cluster of other problems. Remember to be grateful, before criticizing

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  RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@stilgherrian/116379012915339408 What a fine use of unsupervised learning