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> **The fact that AI models can be so easily distilled and replicated is such a stroke of luck.** > > Ten or 15 years ago, if one had asked me to envision a future in which a private company invents...

> **I ate one almond the other day.

> On 23 December 1975, Rob Parsons and his wife Dianne were preparing for Christmas at their Cardiff home when they heard a knock at the door. > > **On their doorstep stood a man with a bin bag cont...

> Thinking about creating a movement to promote **hobbit software**: > > Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by...

> Many of these ocean-dwelling ancients evolved sophisticated sensors for light, sound, and chemicals.

> When art critics get together they talk about form, and structure, and meaning.

> “If Kobe saw that you were afraid, it’s over for you — whether you’re the teammate, or family member, or whatever,” said Brian Shaw, who joined Jackson’s coaching staff in 2005. > > Many tim...

> A good test of whether people are passionate about something: > > Is there a subreddit for it?

> When everyone present has said something out loud, there is a greater chance that they will join in the discussion later.

> In the words of Winnie the Pooh: > > **“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”** > > That silly old bear sure did know a thing or two about living your best life, bu...

> Every once in a while I think about how my ideal note-taking app is essentially just a really nice/flexible GUI for a SQLite database — but I don’t think anything like this exists, and I think that...

> **My basic rule is: analogies are great for a sympathetic audience and bad for > an antagonistic one.** > > - If you're trying to illuminate something to someone who wants to understand your point...

One of the better NBA Draft stories: > GM Billy Knight points out that Zaza Pachulia and Shelden Williams are the only Hawks who are wide in the thighs.

> In the age of cell phones, the area code has become the ancestral clan name or heraldry.

> The first useful thing Buchheit built was a search engine for his own email.

> The amount of iterations you have on a project matter more than the amount of > time you spend on it. — [Mark Saroufim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

> Are we still obsessing over mythical big data?

> 80% of time on mobile devices is spent in apps. > > 85% of mobile app time is spent in the user's Top 5 apps. — [Ben Bajarin](https://martech.org/nearly-85-percent-smartphone-app-time-conce...

> Drinking Rivers is like if you’ve never driven a car before and someone puts you behind the wheel of a rocket ship and says, “Okay, off you go!”