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Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments

by Sol Rashidi

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There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed to die. There isn’t a replacement toddling around; you’re it. It makes you desperate to be ...more

Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

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Orfeo

by Richard Powers

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Mark’s Quotes

“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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“When it stops, you'll know you've heard it all your life.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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“This is a terrible place to die in.
Where's a good one?”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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