I was listening to this interview of Iain McGilchrist. He was explaining how the mechanistic metaphors that we often use in our daily lives could be more harmful than they are helpful. When we think of our bodies in terms of machines, it will consequently trickle down to our reductionistic approach in problem solving. We’re…
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Story 1: Who plans better? You or LLM? I was watching this interview on Machine Learning Street Talk where Prof Subbarao Kambhapati argued that LLMs don’t have reasoning capability and therefore can’t generate a stylistically correct, reasonable, and executable plan. He shared an example of planning a trip to Vienna from India (transcript slightly rearranged…
I’m having a little celebration moment right now for my information detective skill. Allow me to share it with you. Earlier this week I saw a story of one of my IG acquaintances. it was a picture of a page shown on Kindle (see the passage at the end of this post). it looked interesting…
I needed to collect all the lessons and tactics from 122 YouTube videos on business storytelling. And I need them fast. Why though? Am I learning storytelling? Well, yes and no. Let me explain. Origin story I’m convinced that storytelling is the closest technology that we have for idea transfer. Growing up socially awkward, I…
From Every Great Story Has 3 Central Questions – Jeffrey Alan Schechter: A central question is the main query that defines the plot of a story. It’s a question that, once answered, marks the end of the story. A central question consists of professional, personal, and private aspects. The professional component deals with external goals…
“It just feels like 90% of my life is spent in preparation mode. How much of that was necessary, will they pay off, and when can I finally catch a break, I don’t know” “Ah well, good luck with the interviews. I think you’re perfect for the job.” “Thanks” “Overcomplicating, overpreparing, always researching. Yep, sounds…
Sadar nggak teman-teman bahwa kita senantiasa berdansa dengan keterbatasan? Hampir semua yang kita lakukan sehari-hari itu sebenarnya adalah salah satu dari antara dua hal ini: Berusaha berdamai dengan keterbatasan kita. Berusaha mendobrak dan menggeser rentang keterbatasan kita. Menikmati makanan dan minuman enak, tapi kapasitas perut kita terbatas, kecepatan metabolisme kita terbatas, dan kapasitas keuangan kita…
Lately I’ve been revisiting this idea that reason is not the best path to breakthroughs. The core argument is that: we arrive at breakthroughs through intuition and imagination, and then we find our way to a proof or an artifact of that innovation through logic and reasoning. Aha-moments are intuited rather than arrived at procedurally.…
Kenneth Stanley (KS): … there’s this duality…. in the way i think about science and engineering. … the two sides of a coin where scientists use engineering to control in order to gain new knowledge. Whereas engineers take the knowledge that we have and use it to gain control by building a better whatever ……
Someone once shared a trick with me: if you’re not a great cook but want to sell food, your best bet is to make it spicy. Spiciness is often used as a trick to cover up culinary shortcomings. Let’s call this spicy sleight. Before we move on, it’s worth pointing out that this phenomenon is…