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Highlights from  a TED talk  by Angela Lee Duckworth, a psychologist who has studied kids and adults in different kinds of challenging settings to find out who is successful and why  - In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit.  Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals . Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.    Talent doesn't make you gritty. Our data show very clearly that there are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or even inversely related to measures of talent.  T...

This Week I Learned -  *  Visual Paradigm Online is an online tool to create Azure architecture diagrams. *  Minimal APIs are a simplified approach for building fast HTTP APIs with ASP.NET Core.  *  SvelteKit is free and open source web framework software released under the MIT license. * Figma is a collaborative web application for interface design, with additional offline features enabled by desktop applications for macOS and Windows. Like Chrome Dev Tools, Dev Mode is like a browser inspector for your design file, and it brings design concepts—shapes, layers, and groups—closer to developer concepts like code, icons, and tokens. By hovering and clicking around the Figma canvas, you can find and export all the information you need, like measurements, specs, and assets, and uncover additional context from your design system. * Microsoft Learn currently has 25 Practice Assessments for Microsoft Certifications * If you host a LLM based chatbot or API in AW...

Highlights from a 2018  TED talk by Kai-Fu Lee : Deep learning is a technology that can take a huge amount of data within one single domain and learn to predict or decide at superhuman accuracy. For example, if we show the deep learning network a massive number of food photos, it can recognize food such as hot dog or no hot dog.  Or if we show it many pictures and videos and sensor data from driving on the highway, it can actually drive a car as well as a human being on the highway.  Deep learning has become the core in the era of AI discovery, and that's led by the US. But we're now in the era of implementation, where what really matters is execution, product quality, speed and data. And that's where China comes in. Chinese entrepreneurs, who I fund as a venture capitalist, are incredible workers, amazing work ethic.  The Chinese product quality has consistently gone up in the past decade, and that's because of a fiercely competitive environment. In Silicon Valley, ...