Mental Tools

Languages Are Like Butter

by khatzumoto

You know something? I love butter. In fact, I love dairy products, period. Demonized as they often are today, I’m going dairy all the way. There’s nothing quite like the sight, sound and smell of butter on toast in the morning. Yea verily, let it henceforth be known throughout the land that I’ve always loved…

by khatzumoto

1) Don’t Ask The Internet For Permission or Predictions Don’t ask the Internet for permission to try something. Don’t ask it whether it thinks your method will work. Do it and then tell it what happened. Don’t effing ask the Internet, TELL the Internet. Because you know who’s mostly on the Internet? Rectal orifices (there’s…

by khatzumoto

“Artificial Intelligence is a little software and a lot of data.” Yorik Wilks quoted in David Levy’s Robots Unlimited, 2006 From Wilks’ quote, it looks like the AI people (all of them!) are closer and closer to finally “getting it”, as it were. I don’t mean to sound as though I had the answer all…

by khatzumoto

“Textbooks prepare you for the real world as much as cookbooks prepare you for real cooking.” Chris W. Hubbard So…I like to bake. Cookies, that is. Big cookie fan. Got into cakes when I was 12, but that phase kind of passed after an extra helping of boarding school, so…cookies it was in college, and…

by khatzumoto

You are never the right age for anything. 5: You’re too small. 10: You’re too big. You were so cute when you were 5. 12: People would laugh 15: Focus on school. You can do that when you’re 25. 20: Focus on graduating college. Don’t dally, just get it out the way. You were so…

by khatzumoto

The best case scenario is that your skills will become invisible to you. In. vis. ible. You don’t even realize that the “mere” act of walking is a skill you developed through practice and that if you fell out of practice starting today (by falling into, say, a coma), just 6 months of not walking…