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Failures in Polymathy

– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Fiction, Horror, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

December 6, 2019September 4, 2019

Carrie – Stephen King

I keep reading Stephen King and expecting bigger and better things. You would think I would learn my lesson by now?

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Atheism, Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Self-Help  0 Comments

November 29, 2019August 14, 2019

Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson

And sometimes some books make you think “I’d rather be reading something else.”

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Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Science, Technology  0 Comments

November 22, 2019September 11, 2019

Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future – Marshal Brian

A decent vision polluted by very poor execution.

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AI, Computer Science, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

November 15, 2019August 5, 2019

Hello World – Hannah Fry

I bet you’ve tossed around words like ‘algorithm’ before, and you’ve not really known what it’s meant.

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November 8, 2019September 3, 2019

The Merchant’s War – Frederik Pohl

Every time I stumble some list of the best novels in such and such genre, I always end up saving

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Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Semiology, Semiotics  11 Comments

November 1, 2019August 14, 2019

How Language Began – Daniel Everett

Daniel Everett’s ‘How Language Began’ might as well be called ‘why Chomsky is wrong.’ It’s also a very compelling argument.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

October 25, 2019August 5, 2019

Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Some books are just so good you want to start reading them a new right as you finish.

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Non-Fiction, Poems, Poetry  0 Comments

October 18, 2019June 4, 2019

City of a Hundred Fires – Richard Blanco

Reading ‘City of a Hundred Fires’ mostly brought to my attention how ill-equipped I am to really read poetry intelligibly.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

October 11, 2019August 13, 2019

Nemesis Games – James S.A. Corey

Sometimes persistence pays off in the form of a series you didn’t really like starting to be enjoyable finally.

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Capitalism, Current Events, Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

October 4, 2019October 1, 2019

The War on Normal People – Andrew Yang

I’ve been concerned about the problem of automation for years, and considered a universal basic income a solution. This book is a much larger look at the issue.

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