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For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
“Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career.”
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“In spoken Chinese, everything is gender neutral. There is no she or he. The more I think about this now, the more I like this about the language. Man or woman? Does it matter? A person.”
― Chemistry
― Chemistry
“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.”
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“It seemed to me people who omitted possessive pronouns were capable of great intimacies, those that defied context and transcended possession.”
― Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
― Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness
“machine learning is the general field that studies how complex mechanisms can be created without a designer.”
― Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
― Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
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