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“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.”
― John Irving

tags: literature

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“Before machine learning, multivariate regression provided an efficient way to condition on multiple things, without the need to calculate dozens, hundreds, or thousands of conditional averages. Regression takes the data and tries to find the result that minimizes prediction mistakes, maximizing what is called “goodness of fit.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller

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“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent. People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

tags: africa, awareness, biography, explore, fascination, insight, memoir, raw, reflective, wild

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“Trian’s so close now, within arm’s reach of the hatchet. He could snatch it up in half a second. The Prior’s face is shining like an angel’s. Trian shuts his eyes and drops to his knees. But still he sees that triumphant smile, and still he wants to kill the man. He hits his own chest so hard he winds himself. To long to do murder, to savour it in your heart, that’s nearly as bad as to do it. Trian’s in mortal sin and he can’t escape. He batters himself again and again.”
― Emma Donoghue, Haven

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