howtodowtle (AJD)

“In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret.”
― Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“Betrachtet man die Natur nun als Netz, wird offensichtlich, welchen Gefahren sie ausgesetzt ist. Alles hängt mit allem zusammen. Wenn ein Faden gezogen wird, kann sich das ganze Gewebe auflösen.”
― Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

“The greater the uncertainty, the bigger the gap between what you can measure and what matters, the more you should watch out for overfitting - that is, the more you should prefer simplicity”
― Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think