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If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. John von Neumann

Was talking recently with a friend about how hard it is to write blog posts and give talks these days. The longer you’re in the tech industry the more your opinions end up being “well it depends” and “I’m not sure”. These don’t quite make for good blog posts, hah. Was talking recently with a friend about how hard it is to write blog posts and give talks these days.

Reason never changed a man’s opinion which by reason he never acquired. Mark Twain

What exactly means “Center of Excellence”? Whatever we want it to mean. We should be brimming with excellence by nightfall. Centers of excellence create more excellence. Evidence? None.

This is Glibov’s Pike poem in Ukrainian

Is experience exactly the same as pessimism?

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach in An Eternal Golden Braid