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"what passed for dissent in Sulla’s Rome, a senator begged at last, “At least let us know whom you intend to punish.” The next day, eighty names were posted on a white tablet in the Forum. The day after and the day after that, several hundred more joined the list. This was privati..."

"Okay, in a world where apples fall from trees, it’s sufficient evolutionary knowledge to step out of the way from falling apples, or to catch one, or pick one up off the ground and eat it. All the other stuff we know, like the rate at which it falls, and the calculations that all..."

"Mia Hamm, the greatest female soccer star of her time, says it straight out. “All my life I’ve been playing up, meaning I’ve challenged myself with players older, bigger, more skillful, more experienced—in short, better than me.”"

"propose that rerouting and deepening one’s attention to place will likely lead to awareness of one’s participation in history and in a more-than-human community. From either a social or ecological perspective, the ultimate goal of “doing nothing” is to wrest our focus from the at..."

""The big win won't be 'AI can do the drafts.' It will be 'AI can audit drafts and ensure the work product is complete and consistent.'""

""I think autocomplete in IDEs is one of the most successful AI products to date. Part of what's so magical is that when it's right, you're accelerated. When it's wrong, it's not that annoying.""

"you play with it.”6 Dagan, the Mossad chief, went a step further. “This order is illegal,” he snapped at Netanyahu and Ehud Barak. According to Israeli law, Dagan reminded the two, a decision to go to war can only be made in a vote of the entire Security Cabinet, which at the tim..."

"indeed, wealth rather disturbs it, because the"

"Analytical conclusions should always be regarded as tentative,” writes former CIA analyst Richards Heuer, the chief architect of *ACH*. “The situation may change, or it may remain unchanged while you receive new information that alters your appraisal. It is always helpful to spec..."

"A simple negative test of whether an activity is modern exercise is to ask whether it could be done meaningfully without counting or measuring it. (In sports, numbers are used differently; there, scores are a way of recording competition in a social encounter.) Forms of exercise ..."

"After reaching a certain level of skill very quickly, your rate of improvement declines, and subsequent improvement becomes much slower."

"“What do you mean when you say . . . ?” or “From what sources does your information come?” This type of discourse not only slows down the tempo of the show but creates the impression of uncertainty or lack of finish. It tends to reveal people in the act of thinking, which is as d..."

"These systems play an important role in making humans more productive with data, but can struggle underneath to keep a high-fidelity data inventory and to enable programmatic use cases of metadata."

"It must have pained him beyond words to see his once-proud people penned into the small quarter the survivors now occupied, the houses nearby smoldering rubble, others filled with the dead and the nearly dead. The air grew thick with obsidian-colored smoke, while the streets were..."

"Think then of some regular walk or drive or ride you experience often, or even that you’re experiencing for the first time. Imagine yourself a curator. Decide what, among the things you notice, you might declare to be public works of art. Perhaps a disheveled pylon marking a stre..."

"But how was evolution able to get to the jellyfish? The evolutionary process is pretty simple: generate a ton of random mutations and then let natural selection filter them. The overwhelming majority of mutations end up being harmful or neutral. An exceedingly small fraction are ..."

"Today, it is we who watch them as they are born, grow to maturity and die, whereas in all previous civilizations it was timeless objects, instruments or monuments which outlived the generations of human beings."

"The External Reader Test The most reliable method for validating tool design emerged organically from iFood's iteration cycles: show the tool definition to someone unfamiliar with the system and observe their comprehension. If they cannot immediately understand what the tool does..."

"In Kampala, the invasion’s impact was electrifying. Members of the Banyarwanda community could finally drop the disguise they had assumed, and for many Ugandans, that meant registering their presence for the very first time. When Patrick rang one of his oldest friends to tell him..."

"On top of that, Dash’s search ranking system brought its own scaling challenge. A single user query doesn’t just pull up one document. Instead, it triggers our ranker to evaluate many files, each requiring dozens of behavioral and contextual features. What starts as one search qu..."

"others. “The whole secret of the transmission of Ebola,” Kallon said, “is that you wash the body with water, and then the water is collected and used again.” The wash water from the corpse was carefully stored in a container. Then family members would use the water in a ceremony ..."

"This is similar to what is already implemented on Fibre Channel networks, where the FC switches are addressable and run FSPF to compute the topology of the network. In FC, the switch address is embedded in the FC_ID, the Fibre Channel address."

"Striking the right balance between agent autonomy and control is an ongoing challenge. Too little autonomy can result in a rigid, limited system, while too much autonomy may lead to unstable or unexpected behaviors. Adjustable autonomy, which allows for dynamic, context-dependent..."

"Strange . . . because it is almost universal. There is some reason in it. Deep down they hate each other, for the simple reason that they are dependent on each other for gaining happiness, and nobody likes dependence. Slavery is not the intrinsic desire of human beings. If a woma..."