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In America I expended an incredible amount of energy on things that in Afghanistan seemed vain if not pointless, and it was refreshing to submerge myself in an unfamiliar perspective and ideology, to assimilate in both mind and dress.
“In essence, this means neural networks can think using analogies, which is something that could never be said for classic AI.”
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
― Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future
“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.1 In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― Dead Poets Society
― Dead Poets Society
“every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie”
― The Good Immigrant
― The Good Immigrant
Hani’s 2025 Year in Books
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