Commonplace 2020

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces are used by readers, writers, students, and scholars as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts. Each one is unique to its creator's particular interests but they almost always include passages found in other texts, sometimes accompanied by the compiler's responses.

Topics

Ambition, Athiesm, Change, Interruptions, Judgement, Leadership, Love, Machine Learning, Resentment, Suffering, Taxes, Technology

The inevitable consequences of this degree of atheism within the scientific community has involved a deformation of scientific thought quite striking in its character and its extent.

Here is something that is unquestioned and undoubted. Judeo-Christian religion has created the foundation for the greatest civilization in the history of mankind.

Modern Atheism has its roots in Judeo-Christian religion. It doesn't exist in the Islamic world. The freedom to be an atheist only exists in the West. It only exists in the Judeo-Christian world. The freedoms that the left bases its whole worldview on are within a milu(?) that was created by a religion it despises. You can't just take a battering ram to the foundations of civilization and hope the superstructure stands.

It isn’t books that change people, but sentences.

If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to be run by ideas not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay.

We live at the moment when our ability to eliminate those conditions [birth defects] has reached a height we never imagined. So we have both social progress and medical progress. And I believe in both of them. I believe the social progress is fantastic and meaningful and wonderful; and I think the same thing about the medical progress. But I think it is a tragedy when one of them doesn't see the other...I sometimes think it's like those moments in grand opera when the hero realizes he loves the heroin at the exact moment that she lies expiring... We have to think about how we feel about cures all together. A lot of the time the question of parenthood is, "What do we validate in our child and what do we cure in them?"

Jim Sinclair, a prominent autism activist said, "When parents say, 'I wish my child did not have autism,' what they are really saying is, 'I wish my child did not exist and I had a different, non-autistic child instead.'"

People engage with the life they have, and they don't want to be cured, or changed, or eliminated.

Links

• Michael Neilson - Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self Play
• Convolutional Neural Networks (LeNet)
• cross entropy derivative clean with sigmoid and softmax
• loss functions
• covnets
• cnn with sample code

It is precisely God's enormous advantage over men, in their fragility, that makes his treatment of them seem so unfair. God is so great that it is not necessary to put men down in order to protect God from competition.

We shall watch the struggle as Job's faith is strained every way by temptations to see the cause of his misfortune in something less than God.

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