Fantastic audiobook, 5/5 stars. As good as, or perhaps better than, the 4K video series.
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Thursday, April 18, 2019
The World Inside by Robert Silverberg
I did not like Robert Silverberg at the height of his popularity 30 years ago, though an occasional story was enjoyable. I read references to this one recently and decided to give him another chance. The concepts are interesting but very dated. I was on a long flight and did finish the story. But I still don't like his writing or characters, 1/5 stars.
A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy by Alex White
Gave the author a second chance because of the reviews of this one, still puke awful, 0/5 stars.
A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White
Terrible! I could not get past the first 50 pages. 0/5 stars.
Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey
We waited a long time for this installment. Fun adventure, tragic deaths of characters we loved, great twist to the story line. 5/5 stars. Can't wait for the fourth season on TV and the next book.
Sunday, April 14, 2019
By Schism Rent Asunder by David Weber
This one was long and boring. It moves the story forward and builds the characters. But it was drawn out and much too long. 2/5 Stars.
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Slime mold parallel processing
Associative memory (Hopfield Amari recurrent neural network) in slime mold solves the exponentially complex traveling salesman problem in linear time.
Another biology inspired approach to math where nature and evolution have previously discovered an efficient algorithm.
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Saturday, April 13, 2019
Guggenheim museum
After the show we walked through central park to see the Guggenheim museum. It was a little disappointing, 2/5 stars.
Wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman
Today (Saturday, 4/13/19) we saw a 2pm matinee of "Wicked" on Broadway. The performance was great but the sound system had issues; luckily we were in the second row and could hear the actors singing. Having listened to the sound track many times and also having read all of Gregory Maguire's books in the series, I knew what to expect. Jessica Vosk as Elphaba is not quite as good as Idina Menzel but her performance was still fantastic. We all enjoyed it and I sang along quietly to "Defying Gravity," my favorite. Highly recommended, 4/5 stars.
Mitch's 5-Star Rating System
How can I give Phantom only 4 stars? What does my rating system mean? When I give three or more stars, I recommend the book or play or movie. I liked it a lot. It was "good." One means I did not like it. Two is on the border. I don't recommend it but I got all the way through and did not dislike it. I do not want lots of ties for 5-stars where there is no discrimination.
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