KevSaund started reading The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (Poirot, #2)
The Murder on the Links is Agatha Christie’s second Poirot novel, featuring the brilliant Belgian …
I’ve started this like seven times, now I’m finally getting into it.
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KevSaund finished reading The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #4)
The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #4)
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to …
KevSaund reviewed The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #4)
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming event—Earth’s survivors have …
Another solid entry in the Lady Astronaut series
I hadn’t realized this was out until my library app recommended it.
The author’s note at the end mentions she structured the novel around a calendar, which wasn’t obvious while reading, but I get it afterwards. It outside of that, there’s a lot less plot structure. This is almost a slice of life novel, but on mars. There’s sort of a central mystery in here, but that almost feels like back of the book bait more than what the novel is really about.
I hadn’t realized this was out until my library app recommended it.
The author’s note at the end mentions she structured the novel around a calendar, which wasn’t obvious while reading, but I get it afterwards. It outside of that, there’s a lot less plot structure. This is almost a slice of life novel, but on mars. There’s sort of a central mystery in here, but that almost feels like back of the book bait more than what the novel is really about.
KevSaund started reading The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #4)
The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut, #4)
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.—triggering an extinction-level global warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to …
KevSaund finished reading The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza by Lawrence Block
The solution to the mystery was a little contrived, but I had fun.
KevSaund started reading The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza by Lawrence Block
Audiobook selection for a short road trip
KevSaund started reading The Pursuit of William Abbey by Catherine Webb
South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of …
I’ve yet to read a Claire North book I haven’t loved, and this one was $3 at the used book store.
KevSaund reviewed The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
Never stop laughing at them.
4 stars
The way to burst a bubble is with pointed laughter.
Also this book does a very good job of explaining the breadth of “AI” hype, including examining all of the different ways it is actively making the world worse, oth big and small.
The way to burst a bubble is with pointed laughter.
Also this book does a very good job of explaining the breadth of “AI” hype, including examining all of the different ways it is actively making the world worse, oth big and small.
KevSaund finished reading The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Emily Bender, and 1 other
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies …
KevSaund quoted The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
The climate crisis is fundamentally a collection of social problems, about building political will to overcome current economic incentives and about how to allocate resources to accommodate climate refugees
— The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, Emily Bender, and 1 other (36%)
On why text extrusion machines will not be able to solve the climate crisis.
KevSaund commented on The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
Chapter two and we’re already talking about how “AI” is supported by and reinforces a eugenics based view of the world. Hell yeah.
KevSaund started reading The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
Digital copy came in from the library, excited to dive in.
KevSaund reviewed The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …
a bit muddled
I'm not sure if. this book knows what it wants to be when it grows up, spy fiction, romance, time travel mystery, It's a bit of all of that, and never quite lands any of them for me.
I'm not sure if. this book knows what it wants to be when it grows up, spy fiction, romance, time travel mystery, It's a bit of all of that, and never quite lands any of them for me.
KevSaund reviewed Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate)
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …
What's a meta for?
Enjoyed this quite a lot, I think I got to some of the same conclusions before the protagonist did, but I had the benefit of knowing he was a protagonist in a book.
It only works when we work together.
KevSaund started reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The …
I started re-reading this when a friend mentioned it. I haven’t read it since it originally came out and I was lugging the hardback across campus every day. It interesting to come back to it 15 years later, with a new perspective.
Also it remains quite readable and propulsive to me, even as others seem to struggle with it.