Joseph Lee

"I spent a whole lifetime building this! And, as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down."

"I'm from a more operational team and I've long since lost faith in people"

"Making decisions faster means you make more decisions over the course of your career, which will give you stronger intuition about the .. available options. Experience is key to productivity, and greater productivity will provide you with more experience: a virtuous cycle."

"Productivity boils down to high-velocity decision-making and a bias for action."

"If the tea box doesn’t fit you either have too much tea or not enough box"

“If you ask engineers what they want to do - they want to do everything”

“Heat pumps! The hottest, cool thing around.”

(About pollsters) “it’s kind a situation where, uhm, where you know, the vibes overtook, I think, more rational analysis.”

"hope is not a strategy"

"Since they do not possess deep competence in one area, they are not respected by Specialists or other people."

Gonna start a conference called #NormIPS that’s just presentations of middlebrow ML topics. “how to structure Python packages 2022”, “how many k-folds is too many”, “how to make the browser pop-up come up when the notebook is done running”, “putting features in Postgres”, etc.

"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now, it is our turn to study statistical mechanics." - Goodstein, States of Matter (1985)

"I'm going to go through my calendar today and ...make it more humane"

“if you’re not interested in artificial intelligence, you’re probably not interested in interesting things”

“We do these little things, I guess, to fill our time and we set little goals and I guess that’s what makes life exciting”

"Slow down to speed up"

"...I told him that he'd find most of the early questions easy, but said 'you shouldn't laugh at the questions, because they get harder towards the end of the test'. I was intrigued by his reply: 'the questions won't know if I laugh at them, because they haven't got ears'."

"What you're basically asking is 'Wait, what?'."

“Wake up, it’s culture!”