Paul Sorensen

Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in Western popular culture, but, in reality, cynicism in average people is the attitude exactly most likely to conform to the desires of the powerful — cynicism is obedience.
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But it’s important to remember that machine learning only works if the problem is actually solvable with the data that you have.