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YouTube - Famous Failures (youtube.com)
9 points by babyshake on Oct 13, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Life is like being a reinforcement agent in a large world. We just need to raise our epsilon on our epsilon-greedy decision processes if we hope to learn from risk.

on a related note: AI is damn cool


that's certainly a different takeaway from mine, but I can appreciate it.


I still think they should have shown the kid crashing his bike at the end.


They showed a bandage. Probably hes successfully riding after a crash(it coincides with the words) :)


That doesn't fulfill my deep emotional need to see kids crashing their bikes.


This is more irritating than inspiring to me. Take the life of any prodigy and you can cherry-pick context-free moments where they appear shitty. Jordan, for instance, was passed over his first high school tryout because he was too short [1]. He heroically grew taller over the summer and owned continuously for the rest of his life, except at baseball.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jordan#Early_years


You may want to also check out http://www.scholarspot.com tons more videos like this under the motivation category


Other failures can not ever earn a record in history.


Is the snow intensional? Or is it just my computer?


that's a great little video that nicely summarizes failure.




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