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“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood?”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“What does regression do? It finds a prediction based on the average of what has occurred in the past. For instance, if all you have to go on to determine whether it is going to rain tomorrow is what happened each day last week, your best guess might be an average. If it rained on two of the last seven days, you might predict that the probability of rain tomorrow is around two in seven, or 29 percent. Much of what we know about prediction has been making our calculations of the average better by building models that can take in more data about the context.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
“I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
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