“Η συγχώρεση δεν είναι ποτέ μια άμεση αντίδραση στην προδοσία. Απαιτεί χρόνο, όπως κάθε εργασία του πένθους.”
― Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull'amore
― Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull'amore
“The combination of those two systems—honed and perfected during millions and millions of games of self-play—is what allowed AlphaGo to range far beyond human knowledge and come up with radical strategies and counterintuitive moves like the one that it had flaunted during the second game against Lee Sedol. They also allowed it to have a precise estimate of how unlikely that particular move would seem to its human opponent.”
― The MANIAC
― The MANIAC
“...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in it...”
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“Όταν αγαπάμε, δεν αγαπάμε ποτέ ένα μέρος του Άλλου. Δεν μπορεί να υπάρξει μερικός έρωτας. Ο έρωτας απαιτεί έρωτα για τον Άλλον όπως είναι.”
― Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull'amore
― Mantieni il bacio. Lezioni brevi sull'amore
“I now shudder at the accuracy of some of his prognoses, prophecies that no doubt came from his incredible capacity to process information and to sift the sand of the present through the currents of history. That gave him a certain sense of security, an overconfidence that would no doubt have betrayed a lesser man.”
― The Maniac
― The Maniac
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