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Quotes from the book "Hello World - Hannah Fry"

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Hello World by Hannah Fry is a captivating read. Here are some thought-provoking quotes from the book. No object or algorithm is ever either good or evil in itself. It's how they're used that matters. GPS was invented to launch nuclear missiles and now helps deliver pizzas. Pop music, played on repeat has been deployed as torture device.  Psychologists have been using a system of five characteristics to quantify an individual's personality. You get a score on each of the following traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Collectively, they offer a standard and useful way to describe what kind of a person you are. In the United States spending a year in a high-security prison can cost about the same as going to Harvard. At this point AI is better at spotting Breast cancer than Humans and the pigeons are better than AI (in particular types of cancers). Refining an algorithm often means making a choice between sensitivity
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Quotes from "Burn Book -Kara Swisher"

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Here are some interesting quotes from Kara Swisher's memoir "Burn Book". I leave you to your own devices...I mean that; your phone is the best relationship you all have now, the first thing you pick up in the morning and the last thing you touch at night. You invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. "You are nobody if you are are not somebody.com" was the saying in early .com days. Storytelling is trying to come up with an idea that is insightful in terms of giving you a different insight into how things work or is amusing. Between speech and truth, he chose speech. Between speed and perfection, he chose speed. Between scale and safety, the chose scale. Tech has always been a mirrortocracy, full of people who liked their own reflection so much that they only saw value in those that looked th
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Quotes from the book "A Hacker's Mind" By Bruce Schneier

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Here is another great book I read recently "A Hacker's Mind" By Bruce Schneier. It is really interesting, here are some quotes I liked from this book. When most people look at a system, they focus on how it works. When security technologists look at the same system, they can't help but focus on how it can be made to fail. That's what a hack is: an activity allowed by the system that subverts the goal or intent of the system. "Is that allowed" and "I didn't know you could do that" are both common reactions to hacks. Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich is a tax evasion technique someone invented and a lot of companies used to avoid Billions of dollars in taxes across different countries. Estimates are that US companies avoided paying nearly $200 billion in US taxes in 2017 alone, at the expense of everyone else. A hack follows the letter of a system's rules but violates their spirit and intent. No matter how locked-down a system is, vulner
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Quotes from the book "AI Super Powers" - Kai Fu Lee

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Here are some thought-provoking quotes from the book " AI Super-powers" by Kai-Fu Lee Artificial Intelligence is the elucidation of the human learning process, the quantification of the human thinking process, the explication of human behavior, and the understanding of what makes intelligence possible. Neural networks require large amounts of two things: Computing power and data. Harnessing the power of AI today - the "electricity" of the twenty-first century - requires four analogous inputs: abundant data, hungry entrepreneurs, AI scientists, and an AI-friendly policy environment. Kai-Fu Lee Predicts that within 15 years, AI will technically be able to replace around 40%-50% of jobs in the US. 47% of US jobs could be automated within the next decade or two. Instead of being mission-driven(like US entrepreneurs), Chinese companies are first and foremost market-driven. Their ultimate goal is to make money. Chinese companies invest in depth (they own end-to-end busine
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Quotes from the book "Meditation - Mind and Patanjali's Yoga" - Swami Bhaskarananda

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Here are long list of quotes from great book "Mediatation - Mind and Patanjali's Yoga". If you want scratch surface on Meditation, please read this book written by Swami Bhaskarananda. Bhakti Yoga - Path of devotion. Jnana Yoga - Path of rational inquiry. Raja Yoga: Path of psychic control Karma Yoga - Path of right action. Characteristics of a genuine spiritual teacher: No ulterior selfish motives. Do NOT crave praise, honor, or fame. Beyond lust and greed. Do not crave money The food in our stomach cannot be digested by anyone else. So also with spiritual progress, it is we who have to work hard for it. no one else can do it for us. Success is speedy for the extremely energetic. Patanjali 8 step discipline to Yoga: Yama - Restraining harmful thoughts and impulses. A mind with violent tendencies is NOT suitable for meditation. Niyama -  Cultivating good habits. Asana - Learning sitting postures suitable for prolonged contemplation. One who can sit firmly and comfortably
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Quotes from the book "The Coming Wave"

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Here are some quotes from the book "The Coming Wave" by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar. For the context Mustafa Suleyman is CEO of Microsoft AI , co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI. Waves Follow a single seemingly immutable law: it gets cheaper and easier to use and ultimately it proliferates, far and wide. The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: AI and synthetic biology. Uber was impossible without the smart-phone, which itself was enabled by GPS, which was enabled by satellites, which were enabled by rockets, which were enabled by combustion techniques, which were enabled by language and fire. Technologies are ideas, and ideas cannot be eliminated. What if we could grow what we wanted locally? what if our supply chain was just biology? If AI represents the automation of information, robotics is the automation of the material. (Life + Intelligence) X Energy - Modern Civilization. The Leader in AI "will become the ruler of the world". The id
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Quotes from the book "Man's Search for meaning"

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Quotes from Viktor E Frankl's book of "Man's Search for Meaning". He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any HOW. Yes, a man can get used to anything. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation. He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now. Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Logotherapy bases its technique called "paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes. The cue to cure is self-transcendence. Nothingbutness: Man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological and sociological conditions or the product of heredity and environ
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