Pavel Bilenko > Pavel's Quotes

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed”
― William Gibson

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
― Mark Twain

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
― Henry Kissinger

“If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”
― Elon Musk

“If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules”
― Ricardo Semler

“To ensure customers are being delighted, the bank uses data instrumentation to measure, monitor, and control processes by providing real-time knowledge of customers’ journeys.”
― Robin Speculand, World's Best Bank: A Strategic Guide to Digital Transformation

“Этим определениям, однако, не хватает одного важного свойства — количественного измерения уровня интеллекта. Понятно ведь, что уровни интеллекта человека и шимпанзе существенно различаются, да и люди, как известно, обладают разными IQ. В этой связи очень интересно решение, предложенное Франсуа Шолле из Google, создателем известной библиотеки Keras. Интеллект он определяет как способность к эффективному обучению
и предлагает измерять его как КПД конверсии получаемой из внешней среды информации в знания о том, как достигать своих целей. «Intelligence is the rate at which a learner turns its experience and priors into new skills at valuable tasks that involve uncertainty and adaptation»
(см.: Chollet F. On the Measure of Intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:).”
― Сергей Шумский, Воспитание машин. Новая история разума

“I believe that the key to success lies in knowing how to both strive for a lot and fail well. By failing well, I mean being able to experience painful failures that provide big learnings without failing badly enough to get knocked out of the game.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work