I have read 3:16 and it’s really good. Also, it made me want to meet Donald Knuth so I went to his church for Bible study and to his home after service. Great memory.
Reminds me of the question “why do good people go bad?”
What are invisible forces? What is good? What is evil? Physicists, philosophers and theologians alike think about those questions.
Do those questions need a foundation on which they stand to be answered? What is that foundation (are there relative foundations or are they by definition absolute?)?. Is there a moral standard that those handful of companies share? Similar to “success factors”, are there “success ethics” in your perspective?
What would be the elements of success ethics that others can learn from?
Yes, ultimately this is a deep philosophical question. I know most people think it's foolhardy to traverse such waters in a "business book" but I don't mind. If you pay careful attention to the structure of this one, you'll see it's not really a business book at all, at least not in the way the form is normally understood.
Yes, I've read the History of Redemption by Edwards, The Pilgrim's Progress and Holy War by Bunyan, quite a few Spurgeon sermons, and Holiness by Ryle in addition to (parts of) his commentaries on the gospels. I also read the puritans - I read Thomas Brook's Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices and the Body of Divinity (Thomas Watson) last year.
Lately I've read a few older biographies/autobiographies - Thomas Scott's autobiography (The Force of Truth), Halyburton's autobiography, and James Henley Thornwell and Benjamin Morgan Palmer biographies.
Right now I'm reading the Life and Times of Jesus Messiah by Alfred Edersheim (19th century).
I’m a Christian as well and spent a day in Oxford earlier this year. After spending some time at Magdalen College, I bought every book I could by C.S. Lewis and just finished Letters to Malcolm (on prayer) today.
His refreshingly honest take is very relatable, humorous and encouraging.
I can highly recommend it if you’re interested in prayer life (and how to use powerful formulations in letters)
Thanks for sharing this, I was not aware of it and I’m currently in the process of learning Hebrew, dealing with the intersection of (Jewish and Christian) culture and technology.
One example is a GPT version [1] fine tuned on texts of Sefaria [2].
The initiator was in direct contact with Sam Altman to kickstart it. (Personal communication).
What makes DVC especially useful for MLOps? Aren’t MLFlow or W&B solving that in a way that’s open source (the former) or just increases the speed and scale massively ( the latter)?
DVC is much more basic (feels more unix style), integrates really well with any simple CI/CD scripting with git versioning without the need to set up any additional servers.
And it is not either or. People actually combine MLFlow and SVC [0]
"Tokenizer fertility is a metric used to evaluate tokenizer performance and measures a tokenizer’s ability to represent text, calculated by dividing the number of tokens in a text (after tokenizing) by the number of words in that same text"
