Category: Big Book of Quotations
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Chatbots / AI / LLM
“Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. “When a chatbot gets something wrong, Read.
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hope
People say history will be on your side, but these days history is an endangered commodity. In autocracies this is always the case: history can be erased, history can be rewritten. But our era is different: the present cannot become history unless there is still a future, and a future is no longer guaranteed. People Read.
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the hill we climb
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We’ve braved the belly of the beast We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace And the norms and notions of what just is Isn’t always just-ice And yet the dawn is Read.
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a lot of heat
the great Paris accord how is Paris doing lately? how is Paris? how is Paris doing? send all the money to countries that the people never heard of and raise their taxes I ended that one, too I thought I was going to take a lot of heat on that one Read.
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Sod’s Law
Truer words were never spoken: A selection from The Emotional Blackmailer’s Handbook, a collection of enchanting photos and original thought from blogger Tristan Forward (well worth an extended look) The Law Of Averages Is A Controlling Factor In Any Calculation That Conjectures Upon The Frequency Of Occurrences In Sod’s Law. I’ve Said Before That Sod’s Read.
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pain
Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, an understanding, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something. — James Jones, From Here To Eternity Read.
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advice
Few people in the history of written advice have actually been qualified to give it. There’s no Ph.D. program or certification course or license for the role. Which means that nobody is ineligible to give advice, either. … Take Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Those columns were written by a pair of twins whose parents Read.
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The Shovel Man
“The Shovel Man” is probably my favorite Sandburg poem. He wrote lots of others that come close, but the last four lines of this score a bull’s eye right in the center of my heart. On the street Slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across, Tied in a big knot on the Read.
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finish each day
For years, my mother had this hanging on the bathroom wall of our family’s ancestral home: Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some absurdities and blunders no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well Read.
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persiflage
PERSIFLAGE (PER suh flazh) from the French persifler, “to banter” Light banter; idle, bantering talk; a frivolous style of treating a subject – The New Century Dictionary 1927 A light, flippant style – Funk & Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary 1942 852. RIDICULE, derision, irrision, raillery, mockery, banter, persiflage, bandinage, twit, chaff; quiz, quizzing etc. v.: Read.
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