Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. — Brian Christian Art Copy Share Image
“One of the chief goals of design ought to be protecting people from unnecessary tension, friction, and mental labor.” — Brian Christian Design Copy Share Image
“your total amount of regret will probably never stop increasing, even if you pick the best possible strategy” — Brian Christian Regret Copy Share Image
“The biggest purchaser of kale the year before had been Pizza Hut, which put it in their salad bars—as decoration” — Brian Christian Food Copy Share Image
“Computational kindness isn’t just a principle of behavior; it’s also a design principle.” — Brian Christian Habits Copy Share Image
“tackling real-world tasks requires being comfortable with chance, trading off time with accuracy, and using approximations.” — Brian Christian Accuracy Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL” — Brian Christian Absolute certainty Copy Share Image
“Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.” — Brian Christian Complexity Copy Share Image
“Forrest Gander: "Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see… — Brian Christian Attention Copy Share Image
To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“To get a better sense for these findings, we talked to UC Riverside’s Amnon Rapoport, who has been running optimal stopping experiments… — Brian Christian Science Copy Share Image
“Computer scientists would call this a “ping attack” or a “denial of service” attack: give a system an overwhelming number of trivial… — Brian Christian Important things Copy Share Image
“Computer scientists have been working on finding this balance for more than fifty years. They even have a name for it: the… — Brian Christian Computers Copy Share Image
“And it’s actually rational to emphasize exploration—the new rather than the best, the exciting rather than the safe, the random rather than… — Brian Christian Exploration Copy Share Image
“Even the best strategy sometimes yields bad results—which is why computer scientists take care to distinguish between “process” and “outcome.” If you… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could… — Brian Christian Books Copy Share Image
“When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and… — Brian Christian Children Copy Share Image
“Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time.” — Brian Christian Choice Copy Share Image
“When the future is foggy, it turns out you don’t need a calendar—just a to-do list.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“heuristic that favors simpler answers—with fewer factors, or less computation—offers precisely these “less is more” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“When balancing favorite experiences and new ones, nothing matters as much as the interval over which we plan to enjoy them.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“The big picture is all you should be worrying about in the beginning” — Brian Christian Beginning Copy Share Image
