Instead of looking for traits to emulate, focus on ones to avoid — The first successful person I ever met — truly successful, with accomplishments I admired and ambition I strove to emulate — was an entrepreneur in his forties, a client of mine in the first real business I’d ever started. …

So you want to be a Stoic. Join a large worldwide community of people who increasingly have been doing just that over the past decade or so. Or at the very least keep up with the latest in ancient and modern Stoicism before you plunge head first into the philosophy…

Understand if the model does not perform well because of a bad model selection or because of noise in the training data with a real example. — Introduction One of the most common problems in Machine Learning when you build and train a model and you check its accuracy is “Is the accuracy the best I can get from the data or could a find a better model?”. Also, once your model is deployed, the next common question…

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will. — Epictetus I had the pleasure of catching up with Ed Cowell a practicing Stoic who runs his own website and store which is based in the…

Do you ever think “If I achieve goal X, I will be happy”? — What are some traits that make you successful at work? Let’s go over a few things that a lot of people who’re doing well usually do: Sacrifice the present for tomorrow: People who achieve substantial goals usually spend years getting there. …