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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Joseph Campbell - A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Quote: Joseph Campbell – A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

"The Turing test is a method proposed by mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 to evaluate whether a machine can exhibit human-like intelligence. In this text-based conversation, a human judge communicates with two unseen participants. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine apart from the human, the machine passes the test." - Turing Test - Artificial intelligence

Term: Turing Test – Artificial intelligence

"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make." - Irving John Good - “Speculations Concerning The First Ultraintelligent Machine” - 196”

Quote: Irving John Good – “Speculations Concerning The First Ultraintelligent Machine” – 1965

"Absolute advantage is an economic concept that describes an entity's ability to produce a greater quantity of a good or service than its competitors while using the exact same amount of resources." - Absolute advantage - Economics

Term: Absolute advantage – Economics

"It boils down to this: do you want to maximize profit? Want the most [inventive] products and services? Then pull together a group of decent people and be kind and thoughtful and laugh and listen and care." - Tom Peters - Author, management guru

Quote: Tom Peters – Author, management guru

"Comparative advantage is an economic principle stating that individuals, businesses, or countries should specialise in producing goods and services that they can create at a lower opportunity cost than their competitors." - Comparative advantage - Economics

Term: Comparative advantage – Economics

"Technology itself does not decide what the future looks like. People do." - Lisa Su - CEO of AMD

Quote: Lisa Su – CEO of AMD

"Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool used to measure market volatility and identify potential overbought or oversold conditions by plotting three lines on a price chart: a 20-day simple moving average (middle band) and two standard deviation lines (upper and lower bands)." - Bollinger Bands - Technical analysis

Term: Bollinger Bands – Technical analysis

"Time is the best luxury." - Padma Lakshmi - TV Personality and Author

Quote: Padma Lakshmi – TV Personality and Author

"The Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) is a financial metric that measures the expected profitability of a capital investment by dividing its average annual accounting net profit by the initial or average investment cost, expressed as a percentage." - Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) - Financial ratios

Term: Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) – Financial ratios

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance." - Confucius - Chinese philosopher

Quote: Confucius – Chinese philosopher

"Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic interactions among rational decision-makers, where the outcome for each participant depends on the choices made by all. It structures these interactions as 'games' consisting of players, their available strategies, and the resulting payoffs." - Game theory - Applied mathematics

Term: Game theory – Applied mathematics

"Fantasizing, projecting yourself into a successful situation is the most powerful means there is of achieving personal goals." - Leonard Lauder - Former CEO of Estée Lauder

Quote: Leonard Lauder – Former CEO of Estée Lauder

"A Contrastive Language Model (CLM) is a non-generative AI system that scores how well a candidate action fits a given state by aligning their vector embeddings instead of predicting text token by token. Typically built using a dual-encoder architecture with a contrastive loss objective (like InfoNCE), it pulls correct state-action pairs together while pushing incorrect ones apart." - Contrastive Language Model (CLM) - Artificial intelligence

Term: Contrastive Language Model (CLM) – Artificial intelligence

"Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) is a financial metric that measures a company's financial performance over the past 12 consecutive months up to the most recent quarter. By continuously rolling forward to include the newest data and dropping the oldest, TTM provides investors with a more current and up-to-date look at revenue, earnings, or cash flow than standard annual reports." - Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) - Corporate reporting

Term: Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) – Corporate reporting

"Today we announced the Claude-led discovery of a molecular machine that we suspect could represent a new gene editing mechanism." - Dario Amodei - Anthropic CEO

Quote: Dario Amodei – Anthropic CEO

"Subordinated debt, or junior debt, is an unsecured or lower-priority loan that ranks below senior debt in the repayment hierarchy during a company's liquidation or bankruptcy. Because junior debt holders are only paid after all senior obligations are fully satisfied, this asset class carries a significantly higher risk of default, which issuers compensate for by offering higher interest rates." - Subordinated (junior) debt - Finance

Term: Subordinated (junior) debt – Finance

"One’s doing well if age improves even slightly one’s capacity to hold onto that vital truism: ‘This too shall pass.’" - Alain de Botton - Author

Quote: Alain de Botton – Author

"I like hopeful as an attitude, not as a strategy." - Drew Barrymore - Actress

Quote: Drew Barrymore – Actress

"Self-actualisation is the lifelong process of realising and fulfilling your unique potential, talents, and capabilities to become your most authentic self. Popularised by psychologist Abraham Maslow as the peak of his hierarchy of needs, it is a continuous journey of personal growth rather than a static destination." - Self-actualisation - Psychology

Term: Self-actualisation – Psychology

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