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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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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…
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Death of the Author
I finally got around to reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. I can’t remember where I found out about it, just that it was a sci-fi book people were loving. It wasn’t what I expected and it didn’t seem science fiction enough, at least at the start. It was interesting enough to keep…
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Summer reading list
I’ve been enjoying a lot of reading time lately, and I am taking advantage by floating between as many books as I feel like it. It’s wonderful.
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Of wolves and men
I’m really enjoying Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez. This is a book about “the way that wolves and humans have interacted over centuries, and the way that the wolf has become so central to our thinking about animals.” I don’t know why I initially picked up a book about wolves, but I’m glad…
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Tales of boys and their fathers
A repost from Critter.blog, just because I liked it so much: Tales of boys and their fathers are the same in every age, in every place. We love each other, hate each other, miss each other, hold each other back, but we can never live unaffected by each other. We try to be men and…
