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* [The Two Pizza Rule](#the-two-pizza-rule)
* [Wadler's Law](#wadlers-law)
* [Wheaton's Law](#wheatons-law)
* [The Bitter Lesson](#the-bitter-lesson)
* [Principles](#principles)
* [All Models Are Wrong (George Box's Law)](#all-models-are-wrong-george-boxs-law)
* [Chesterton's Fence](#chestertons-fence)
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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.

### 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.
>
> 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 are generally more likely to be guidelines relating to design.
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