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"The characters in my books are often people who are struggling to find their place in the world."
Children understand more than we often give them credit for.
"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."
So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness. They were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through. And a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams.
The key to solving complex problems is often to find the right abstraction that simplifies the problem without losing its essential features.
In the world of computing, the boundary between the possible and the impossible is often defined by the algorithms we can devise.
The beauty of quantum algorithms is that they often provide exponential speedups over classical algorithms.
The complexity of a learning problem is often determined by the size and structure of the hypothesis space.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
The way we perceive the world is shaped by our expectations, and often, what we see is what we expect to see.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.