@McClarey2@Historycourses What did he do wrong? All you needed strategically was the blockade and that was running. Kentucky and Tennessee were secured before 1864, no?
@DeepDishEnjoyer universal approximation is not why deep learning is good. lots of stuff is universal approximating. deep learning is good bc of implicit bias
It’s easy to segment American lit - you need western, you need NYC, you need black literature. I just love Franzen. Probably missing 19th c but oh well
- beloved (could swap with jazz)
- angle of repose
- the corrections
- all the pretty horses
- gatsby
I'm seeing a lot of people sharing 5 American authors they admire. What about 5 American novels?
My choices would perhaps be:
- Moby-Dick (Melville)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
- The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)
Yes, I can count, but I couldn't leave Faulkner out of the list.
@AlanMCole No it does come from analogy to credit cards. Like Beyoncé said “face card never declines”. Longer ago Rick Ross said “I get that work off my face,” sort of like he could get shipments from suppliers just off reputation