All models are wrong, and increasingly you can succeed without them.
Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.
When I was in school, working as a team was called cheating.
Peers can be the best teachers, because they're the ones that remember what it's like to not understand.
We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data
Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.