Forrest Gump
by Winston Groom · first published 1986
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A man named Forest Gump sits at a bus stop and tells everyone about his life. It starts in a doctor's office when he gets leg braces. Then he goes to school where he meets Jenny, and his entire school career and football. Then it goes on to college football. then to Vietnam where he meets bubba. then bubba dies and forest saves a whole platoon. After the war forest gets a medal of honor and runs across America. Then his mom dies. Then he finds jenny again. They have a kid and get married. Then jenny dies. Then the book ends but there is more than this in the town of Greenbow Alabama.
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> Forrest Gump didn't need any machine learning. No, it just needed a massive demographic the studios could exploit the Hell out of by taking a semi-popular novel and Spielberging all over it. You have a good point,…
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on “Dubious Math in Infinite Jest (2009)” ↗