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“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Some readers are bound to want to take the techniques we’ve introduced here and try them on the problem of forecasting the future price of securities on the stock market (or currency exchange rates, and so on). Markets have very different statistical characteristics than natural phenomena such as weather patterns. Trying to use machine learning to beat markets, when you only have access to publicly available data, is a difficult endeavor, and you’re likely to waste your time and resources with nothing to show for it.

Always remember that when it comes to markets, past performance is not a good predictor of future returns—looking in the rear-view mirror is a bad way to drive. Machine learning, on the other hand, is applicable to datasets where the past is a good predictor of the future.”
― Francois Chollet, Deep Learning with Python

“Uncrumpling paper balls is what machine learning is about: finding neat representations for complex, highly folded data manifolds.”
― François Chollet, Deep Learning with Python

“Respecto a los perros, nadie que no haya convivido con ellos conocerá nunca, a fondo, hasta dónde llegan las palabras generosidad, compañía y lealtad. Nadie que no haya sentido en el brazo un hocico húmedo intentando interponerse entre el libro que estás leyendo y tú, en demanda de una caricia, o haya contemplado esa noble cabeza ladeada, esos ojos grandes, oscuros, fieles, mirar en espera de un gesto o una simple palabra, podrá entender del todo lo que me crepitó en la sangre cuando leí aquellas líneas; eso de que en las peleas de perros, el animal, si su amo está con él, lo da todo.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Perros e hijos de perra

“To whatever end,” he whispered.
Silver lined her eyes. “To whatever end.”
A reminder—and a vow, more sacred than the wedding oaths they’d sworn on that ship.
To walk this path together, back from the darkness of the iron coffin. To face what waited in Terrasen, ancient promises to the gods be damned.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“When she awoke every morning, she repeated the same words: I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass