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“Only country people, thought Beauvoir, were endlessly fascinated by shit. Country people and parents.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“Using real world data to train AI can introduce the same biases that plague our human decision making.”
― Bernard Marr, Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Successful Companies Used AI and Machine Learning to Solve Problems

“Pity and compassion are the easiest to understand. Compassion involves empathy. You see the stricken person as an equal. Pity doesn’t. If you pity someone you feel superior.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“You truly are my friend, aren’t you?” she said. She hadn’t quite believed it, half expecting a ruse, but she didn’t think there was one. “You should know the answer by now,” he replied, but not unkindly. “It’s very difficult, in this place, to discern what’s real from what’s false.” “I know.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic