Saturday, April 30, 2022

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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The author did a fantastic job of "world building" a bizarre far-flung future setting as the last remnants of humanity struggle to...

Raymond Chandler Books as Radio Dramas by the BBC

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The BBC did a great job in transferring these Philip Marlow stories by Raymond Chandler into fun radio plays.  Included in the collection ar...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Das Kind von Sebastian Fitzek

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Dieses Buch ist sehr vulgär; die Geschichte ist gut geschrieben; aber die Ereignisse sind schrecklich und deprimierend. Ich wollte nichts üb...

Giants by Peter Watts

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Fun short story; I am glad I finally had time to read it. 5/5 Stars.

Two Parsecs from the Goldilocks Zone by Peter Watts

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I finally had time to read this novella and it is fantastic, 4/5 Stars.  Aside:  My friend, who is a professional astrophysicist, told me th...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Efficient training of deep networks with unitary matrices

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Yann Lecun has given a few informal talks and published a couple of monographs about why "big data" is frequently not necessarily ...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Security through Simplicity: there is no attack surface like NO ATTACK SURFACE

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Another day, another major security vulnerability is uncovered in some complex system.  Amazon Web Service (AWS) provides a convenient Relat...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

Das Unmoralische Testament

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Die Charaktere in dieser Geschichte sind primitive, dunkle Menschen, die alle Kriminelle sind. Ich habe keine Empathie für einen von ihnen. ...

The Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer & David Case

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I remember watching the fun movie version of this book in 1976 when it premiered, but I was not interested in the book at the time. Earlier ...

Number Needed to Treat (NNT)

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Sebastian Rushworth, a medical doctor in Sweden , takes us on an interesting tour of the medications we take for our health through the lens...
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