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What does it mean to be a professional or to practice a profession? There is no one better to define this for us than, Admiral Rickover. He truly walked the talk, and got the job done. These are my takeaways from Admiral Rickover's essay: "Engineering in Practice&
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The rarity of a good mind A good mind is rarer than a full bank account. The bank account can be taken away from you. But a good mind is a secure possession capable of miracle-like feats. Nobody can take it away from you The origin & limits of intelligence
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What follows are notes from Admiral Rickover's speech: Engineering Opportunities The Administrator's Job The most important function of an administrator is: * Selection of personnel * Training of personnel "If one chooses the right people, there is little else to do" Purpose vs Security On graduation,
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I saw everywhere recently that OpenAI's SORA is making waves across the web. SORA is capable of making videos out of textual descriptions. I went to their website, trying to give it a go. No way to try it immediately, though. I'd have loved to make
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Do you want to build a team culture that you can be proud of? If yes, you are in the right place. My system will help you build the team culture you aspire for. Team culture means two things: First, the way in which the team faces challenges together. Second,
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Last week, Marker, the PDF to Markdown converter, topped the Hacker News homepage for a while. As a curious student in the ML world, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to look under the hood, and learn more about how this awesome Document AI tool works. What is
Napoleon is supposed to have said, Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. People tend to unconsciously recognize how powerful the activity called reading is. For almost 600 years now, the printed book, and its spiritual successor the eBook have
"The characteristic of distractions is that they are many. But the characteristic of concentration is that it is one" In this article, I aim to explain my current understanding of the human phenomenon often known as "mental concentration". Consider it as my present understanding of the
The Employee Onboarding Problem At Hexmos, we faced a significant challenge when onboarding new software engineering interns. The process of integrating them into our team and systems was very demanding. Typically, one or two senior developers would spend a significant amount of time helping interns install the many tools, packages,
Newton taught himself Descartes's Geometry, on his own. It was not without any blockers. There is evidence that he got stuck at certain pages, and he would trace his steps back, start again, and go farther on his next attempt. This way, he mastered Descartes' mathematical works
Newton had something to say about people who merely work with things from a mechanical/physical/empirical point of view, versus those who operate on abstracted models, and who are good at finding their own errors, correcting them, and using reasoning to overcome varied situations and problems. Newton was aiming
Ultimately, as human beings, we are concerned about more. We want— to be more and do more. We want to enhance our positions, competence, wealth, and power. We want to enhance all aspects of life. Our quality of being and doing depends upon actions carried out over a long period