A full debate between Maher and Colbert would be amazing. Both so very sharp and very funny.
My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator →
A touching and funny story about being a dad. Very will written too.
I think one of the roles of being a dad is interjecting a little bit of adventure in to their kid’s lives.
A single deep learning algorithm masters a bunch of old Atari video games. The future is coming quickly, with big changes ahead.
paulgraham.com →
Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you’ve lost the source of. It works, but you don’t know why.
Yes.
sonder →
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Hacker News: Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you →
Good discussion on investing in individual stocks vs index funds. I can see myself sticking to index funds but leaving a small percentage to individual stocks.
Linked article: http://edmarkovich.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-i-dont-trade-stocks-and-probably.html
Don’t give up little mouse. You got this. (via kottke)
Does Life End at 35? | KZhu.net →
His advice to me: Don’t be in so much of a rush. Be easier on yourself. Comparing yourself to what others are doing is a waste of time. He also adds an old Chinese saying “大器晚成” - A big construction is always completed late.
