Tag: metaphor
14 quotes
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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The bottom line on parallel computing: you cannot produce a baby in one month by doing it with nine women.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river small at first, narrowly…
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These early days of AI are already absurd. Humans, walking and talking bags of water and trace chemicals that we are, have managed to convince well-organized sand to pretend to think like us.
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GPT-4 is not a stochastic parrot, nor a blurry jpeg of the web, nor an evil Lovecraftian “shoggoth,” nor some cartoon Waluigi. The simple but best metaphor for GPT-4 is that it’s a dormant digital neocortex trained on human data just sitting…
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Every storm begins with one gust of wind, and every flood begins with a single drop of rain.
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The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When [the] images clash... it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival. As we grope our way up the hill, we will meet with many dead ends that cause us to descend a ways to see if another approach will take us to a higher peak hill-climbing only gets…
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Language wants to clutch, corral, and fence; to constrain, tame, and neaten the tangled wild. And that makes the tangled wild mad as a caged wolverine.
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love is best spelled T-I-M-E
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Beer has food value But food has no beer value unknown
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Everything we do from this point onward is rearranging the seats on the deck of the Titanic