Category: general
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Be yourself
Today I watched Rick Beato’s interview of Flea, the bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I have been big fans of both of them for many years (much longer for Flea). I learned quite a lot from the interview. I knew that Flea had started on trumpet, but I hadn’t realized how much he…
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Expect the unknowns
In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld made this statement about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there…
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The research mindset
Back when I was working at Nuance Communications, we had a yearly internal research conference, in which people would share what they had been working on with other teams. Usually there were about 200 or so people at the conference, which was probably about 1/4 of all the people working in research. I got the…
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Three questions from the Cafe
For my birthday this year a friend gifted me Cafe at the Edge of the World by John Strelecky (amazon link). She actually gave me the German translation, which was fine with me. It was good timing, as I had a long plane trip ahead of me on December 24th, so I read it while…
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Nutrition experiment results
In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to try a strange high-protein diet last week consisting only of Harzer cheese and broccoli. Well, I completed that experiment, and here is some information about how it went. I cheated a bit Originally I had planned to eat 16 pieces (800 grams) of Harzer…