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The Bitter Lesson
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Coined by Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory), this simple, concise, and powerful law aims for an increase in harmony and respect within a professional organization. It can be applied when speaking with coworkers, performing code reviews, countering other points of view, critiquing, and in general, most professional interactions humans have with each other. Coined by Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Big Bang Theory), this simple, concise, and powerful law aims for an increase in harmony and respect within a professional organization. It can be applied when speaking with coworkers, performing code reviews, countering other points of view, critiquing, and in general, most professional interactions humans have with each other.
### The Bitter Lesson
[PDF](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson.pdf)
[HTML](http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html)
> The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.
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> Rich Sutton (2019)
The bitter lesson by [Rich Sutton](https://x.com/richardssutton) says that scale, in terms of both data and computational power, has driven the most significant advancements in AI research, rather than the intricacies of the research methods themselves.
## Principles ## Principles
Principles are generally more likely to be guidelines relating to design. Principles are generally more likely to be guidelines relating to design.