The man who gets constantly rejected by women starts to complain how women “should” be interested in him because he’s nice. The employee shunted for a promotion starts to complain how the company “should” reward them for their hard work. The student turned down by their top choice college starts to complain how colleges “should” […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
Simple Rules
The rules for losing weight are pretty simple. Eat less Exercise more The rules for making money are pretty simple. Offer a good or service. Sell it. The rules for dating are pretty simple. Be a high value person. Ask people you’re attracted to out on dates. These rules tend to be pretty simple, but […]
Critical Thinking Litmus Test
How good at critical thinking are you? I think we’d all like to think of ourselves as independent thinkers, but the paradox of critical thinking is that the better you think you are at critical thinking, the worse you get at it. Being arrogant causes you to develop blind spots, and blind spots impair your […]
October Monthly Goal: Design
I think I’m generally bad at design. Growing up, I’ve always been the type of person to value function over form, but I think a more nuanced opinion is that function should complement form, and form function. For October, I want to develop a rudimentary understanding of graphic design. I will spend today and tomorrow […]
September Monthly Goal Epilogue: Neural Networks
And with that, I’ve completed the specialization for Neural networks. In total, I felt like I learned a lot, and yet, very little. What I did learn: -the basic keras toolkit and how to build neural networks with keras -Different setups of neural networks (RNNs, Sequence Models, Attention Learning, convolutional neural networks) -Most of your […]