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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Behemoth B-Max && Behemoth Seppuku: Rifters Behemoth by Peter Watts
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I love the author's biology babble because it is well-grounded in hard science. But the Internet stuff (Maelstrom) is poorly researched....
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Wayward Galaxy 5 by Jason Anspach & J N Chaney
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Disappointing. The dialog, especially by the Brody character, is flat and no longer funny. The story and love interest was ok and I liked ...
Thursday, February 23, 2023
The Man Who Solved the Market by Gary Zuckerman
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I became curious about Jim Simons when I heard Brian Keating talk about him recently so I read this book. The last few chapters are very go...
Swann's War by Michael Oren
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I am a big fan of Dr. Oren's history books so when I saw this one in the library I grabbed it. The story is interesting and good; the m...
Monday, February 20, 2023
Roadkill by Dennis E Taylor (Audio book)
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The Bobiverse author has a few new books out since he wrote The Singularity Trap and I was not keeping up. This short audiobook was fun an...
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Which Cognitive Bias is this one?
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https://smbc-comic.com/ https://smbc.comic-com The list of 150 Cognitive biases has several that cover this common tendency. I am curio...
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Will the ESG descend into insignificance?
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Will the Evil Search Giant (ESG) descend into insignificance? If you have time, read Praveen's analysis . Here is my own personal exper...
Iran: A Modern History by Abbas Amanat
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I frequently lament my choices in books to read, especially history books. This thousand-page detailed account of the last 350 years of Ir...
Friday, February 17, 2023
Best Places to Work in 2023
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GlassDoor has published their Best Places to Work report . As many of the usual winners, including LinkedIn, Meta, Salesforce, DocuSign, ...
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Moon Dust as an earth cooling Parasol?
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(cumulative attenuation from a monodisperse cloud of particles with total mass Mcloud = 109 kg at https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?...
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