I'm mostly a sporadic reader but I felt like I needed a place to talk about what I read.
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50% complete! Johnny has read 6 of 12 books.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t …
phew, chapter 5 is some heavy stuff. principles for "care-based" AI derived from 3-4 different theories of philosophy of science, none of which I'm familiar with of course. it didn't lose me, but it was reeeeaaaally abstract and meta.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping …
There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers-designers, engineers, writers, and many others-have learned that when they …
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to …
I started reading but didn't get very far. Finishing the whole thing within a library rental period seems practically impossible for me. It probably doesn't help that a lot of the hook of this book surrounding formal logic is not new to me and I learned about it extensively at university very recently.
Might pick this up again at another point, right now I feel like reading different stuff.
Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers a galvanising argument for why …
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
"Seventeen-year-old Cia lived in a house of secrets until she was five, when her father literally burned it all down. …
From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI--and how to defend …
Hauptgewinn! Der junge und ehrgeizige Kommissar Lanner aus dem niedersächsischen Cloppenburg wird tatsächlich nach Berlin …
"Der König von Berlin" ist eine nette, gut erzählte Geschichte, die für mich aber leider nicht wirklich als "Kriminalroman" funktioniert hat. Ich fand die Rätsel etwas durcheinander und, sobald die Richtung des Ganzen dann klar wurde, nicht mehr so spannend. Unabhängig davon ist es eine gut und vor allem (wie sollte es anders sein) humorvoll erzählte Geschichte mit toll geschriebenen Charakteren im typischen Stil von Evers, an dem ich nichts auszusetzen habe.
Kurz: Aufhänger und Thema (Ratten) sind kreativ, die Erzählung und Charaktere amüsant, aber die Krimi-Elemente leider zu lasch dafür, dass sich in dem Roman hauptsächlich darauf fokussiert wird.
Hauptgewinn! Der junge und ehrgeizige Kommissar Lanner aus dem niedersächsischen Cloppenburg wird tatsächlich nach Berlin versetzt. Allerdings erwarten ihn dort …
THE ASSASSIN
There are many ways for a young man with quick wits and a …
Recommended by Cory Doctorow
Hauptgewinn! Der junge und ehrgeizige Kommissar Lanner aus dem niedersächsischen Cloppenburg wird tatsächlich nach Berlin versetzt. Allerdings erwarten ihn dort …
More for my sci-fi romp this year – watched the show adaptation and really liked it
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, …
Murder on the Orient Express is certainly a decent "whodunnit", although at this point the conclusion of the story is so well-known that I can't really judge how well it was executed from the viewpoint of a reader without that prior knowledge. It's a quick, fluent read once you get used to Christie's vocabulary and style of writing, which is (unsurprisingly) rather antiquated in some passages. I was a little surprised at the untranslated French interjections and phrases; people who don't know at least a little French might stumble upon them.
All in all I found it to be a great book to read for fun in 2 days. Some of the details and the general way the pieces of the puzzle fit together ended up being pretty satisfying and less one-dimensional than I remembered from whatever movie adaptation I watched ages ago.
