In America I expended an incredible amount of energy on things that in Afghanistan seemed vain if not pointless, and it was refreshing to submerge myself in an unfamiliar perspective and ideology, to assimilate in both mind and dress.
“I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they’re not at all the same thing.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“In essence, this means neural networks can think using analogies, which is something that could never be said for classic AI.”
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
“We don’t sense mistakes coming, there’s this crucial unforeseen factor to them. So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn’t a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can’t set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there’s nothing we can do about them.”
― Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
― Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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