Via [NYT](When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt): This article shows the painful reality of employees who worked at a $1B valued start-up, that went south. Instead of they getting paid to work, the employees ended up paying to work for the start-up.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. - Bertrand Russell

“You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.

Thoroughly enjoyed this no BS talk by Manoj Bhargava. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46-XiMOoJE?rel=0]

The paper titled, “Statistical Modeling – The two cultures”, by Leo Breiman(man behind CART) was published 14 years ago, a time when machine learning techniques had started to become popular. In the last decade or so, the field has exploded. There are many graduate and PhD programs that are offering full-fledged courses on the subject. There are also dedicated journals that publish ML research findings of researchers from a wide range of fields.