Saturday, September 14, 2019

Echos of Glory by Jay Allen

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The adventures (and terrible celestial mechanics) continue! Fun story line, character arcs, politics, and mindless entertainment, 4/5 stars....
Friday, September 13, 2019

Jetsons then and now

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if you are old enough to remember the Jetsons intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyinD6ZDqeg  . . . then you will love this new Arconic ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

After The Galaxy series 1: The Unsung by Scott Bartlett

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Interesting characters and setting but lazy, contrived, melodramatic writing and "too much story."  Really terrible science, yuck....

Erdenweh by Bo Balder

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This one is not terrible, despite the bad science.  The concept is that we continuously under-estimate the microbiome in our ecosystem under...
Sunday, September 8, 2019

AI, human behaviors, bias, subtle unobserved data, & causality (long but worth it)

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In my day job, I am now trying to measure and predict which software efforts from my teams will deliver how much incremental revenue for my ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Google is now monetizing those annoying "I'm not a robot" challenges

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Google sells, and more frequently gives away the use of reCAPTCHA to protect your web site or web pages from bots.  When their algorithm s...
Monday, September 2, 2019

The Day the Icicle Works Closed by Frederick Pohl (1960)

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Holds up surprisingly well, great plot, 4/5 Stars.

Ruins of Empire by Jay Allan

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Light, brainless military space opera with great melodrama, fun.  Terrible science 3/5 stars.
Saturday, August 31, 2019

The Hive, Second Formic War, book 2 by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

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The plot, dialogue, characters, and story-telling are all fantastic (as usual).  There were some celestial mechanics issues that irked me a ...
Sunday, August 25, 2019

Frost Kriminalhörspiel

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Diese Geschichte war sehr gut. Das Schauspiel, Timing und die Postproduktion waren ebenfalls großartig.Die Zusammenfassung  war zu kurz. 4/5...