Project managing was what he did, and driving his management approach was the Weebies principle, the Silicon Valley principle that nothing was impossible. Impossibility was not an absolute, but as shiftable as a heavy boulder.Trial and error and a little cognitive daring were all it took to make the impossible, possible.
With a deep intuition of time, an ability to feel it inside, viscerally and he still spent his whole life trying to figure out how to minimize lose and entropy and logical impossibility . How to tease out the calculus underlying cause and effect.He still spent the better part of four decades trying to come to terms with just how screwed up and unfair it is that we only get to do this once.
Yeah, so a lot of this stems out of forgiving myself, that I saw that as an impossibility that I'm going to go ahead and live my life and try to do the right thing now, but there's no way I can forgive myself. But I finally had because people would come up to me.
to the recitation of a single mantra. and it was the impossibility of using that methodology that kept most European transports hugging the shores of continents until the British solved
So chapter 2 is blocking the exits. It's called the Impossibility of Retreat. And it's about a bunch of different things-- the school of Epicurus, which was the early example of a retreat to outside
It has to be something stronger than probabilistic impossibility . So what about logical impossibility ? So certain acts are logically impossible to perform.
And I quickly discovered that being alone not only when you're younger, say the age that most of the people are in this audience, but as you age is an impossibility there, for better or worse. And something else that I discovered is that this guy who I talked to, as you can see,
We just got a mixture of these two forms. was a scientific and chemical impossibility .
That's, like, super funk. Although it's almost an impossibility to think of somebody who's not better than our current president at-- at anything.
can take place. So I think miracles cannot be probabilistically impossible. Miracles have to involve some kind of impossibility , but it cannot be a probabilistic impossibility . It has to be something stronger than probabilistic impossibility .
about today. And the idea is that these tiny drones would maybe fly into occupied buildings or distant caves and perhaps But dinosaurs really seem like an impossibility .
The CPUs in this thing, that's atoms, and our brains, that's atoms. So there's no theoretical impossibility for this to happen. Well, today, I'm very happy to host two guys who can explain why this will happen in much more detail.
as a gay man or the certain age when I came out in the business back in the '80s, this was an impossibility . Who I am and what I represent was an impossibility . So I'm grateful to have lived long enough to see this day.
And in some cases, that can feel so isolating that the darkness turns inwards, a darkness that makes the possibility of leading a normal life seem like an impossibility , particularly and sadly acute among our youth who have to handle all of this unnecessary shame with far less life experience, basically far less time to understand that what they feel
But it is difficult for us to say that this is a miracle in the philosophical or theological sense. So here I would like to introduce three different types of impossibility . So certain events are probabilistically impossible.
Miracles have to involve some kind of impossibility , but it cannot be a probabilistic impossibility . It has to be something stronger than probabilistic impossibility . So what about logical impossibility ?
So that means that they are not authentic tasks. So what we need is something between probabilistic impossibility and logical impossibility . So my suggestion is that miracles are nomologically impossible events, which means that miracles cannot take place
But then, with fire guns, and with mortars, and with all these cannons, it's much easier to defend yourself. And the last war that showed us the probably impossibility of a former order, was a Thirty Years' War in Europe, that finally ended up with Westphalia Peace, which created modern states.
it must at some point have reached a univalent state. So now here's an intuition behind this FLP impossibility result. Let's imagine that you have a terminating execution of a bivalent system. You start bivalent. Then eventually everybody outputs some value.
I am constantly falling in love with the impossibility of a thing.
We're constantly taught that intersex embodiment and intersex modes of being are basically an impossibility , or at best a pathology that needs to be corrected.
And for them, it would have been an impossibility .
May I ask how you teach students that have extreme difficulty or impossibility in sitting in Full Lotus?
license with the timeline in the Bolivian segment in particular it's a physical impossibility to travel back
back to Ancient Greek times when Aristotle emphasized the potential aspect of infinity as opposed to the impossibility , according to him, of achieving an actual
So a lot of what I write about in this book has to do with that impossibility and how you live with that impossibility .
They are stories of people who won against those odds because they focused not on the impossibility of the task,
clearly mixed with horror. 'She wore no hat.' Anna summed the impossibility of what she had seen. 'Shame to see a team driven like that for
in a moment, we need to tell the truth about the impossibility or futility of putting into genocide. If we had been here a hundred years ago, and I had said at that time, that it
I'm sure they were probably pretty miserable back then, but you know, they talk about now like how difficult it is, like the impossibility
Yearning for freedom is a pretty relatable sentiment for anyone who’s ever been a kid — and Minerva’s discovery that freedom is an impossibility for everyone in her country is a
Right. And then right there, there is basically a mathematical impossibility to provide for yourself.
But as soon as you go into the small, you have this intrinsic probability, which is a de facto impossibility for us
The idea that a character like Pray Tell exists on the landscape at all is for me as a gay man or the certain age when I came out in the business back in the '80s, this was an impossibility . Who I am and what I represent was an impossibility .
And, clearly, one of the points that this has to make is of the impossibility of a meaningful life offline.
But in that culture, to be able to meet her, photograph her is a complete impossibility , because women
where they are and she sees that distance and and say say that's impossible for me to achieve and when you see that impossibility and say hey
like everyone has to be at the same time special and above average, which is basically a logical impossibility ,
So you can imagine an attacker takes over an agent and sends the worst possible messages with the goal of trying to mess everybody up. Now there's this seminal result in distributed system due to Fischer, Lynch, and Paterson called the FLP impossibility result, which states that no deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee all three of safety, liveness, and fault tolerance in an asynchronous system.
She's a pediatrician. In her state and in many others, that would have been an impossibility had she been caught.
If you majored in six things, you know. When you go to Santa Cruz, you can never actually graduate in four years. It's a known impossibility . So, if you stay in school long enough you
so I think some of the economic worries are overblown, but I think the worry about, simply the fact that the impossibility of the worlds being able to take the environmental impact