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Infinity machine
I was surprised at how interesting The Infinity Machine was, but maybe I shouldn’t be. It’s a biography of one person, namely one of the fathers of modern AI and the person that runs Google’s Gemini AI product now (Demis Hassabis, which is pronounced DEH-mees Has-SAH-bees), but it also covers many people who have been…
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The Slip
Have you ever read an author that could describe you and everyone you know better than you could? Who could make observations cut so deep you question whether you are paying attention to your own life? This is how I felt after finishing The Slip by Lucas Shaefer, my most recent fiction read after The…
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June reading update
My beach book was The Golem and Jinni by Helene Wecker. I picked it up randomly from the library in one of the recommended sections, and something about it piqued my interest. I’m always up for good fantasy (and sci-fi) fiction, so maybe that was it. I really enjoyed it. Had no idea that it…
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Bobbi Gibb
“When you’re running, you don’t have to think about what your boss wants you to do that day. You’re free. You feel the energy of the universe blowing through you.” Bobbi Gibb My next marathon is coming up, and surprise, surprise… I’m reading a new book about running: The Running Ground by Nicholas Thompson. It’s…
