bigblen started reading The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett
1988 UK Reprint of the original Corgi print from the same year.
EBook from Christchurch city library. Thanks @aimee@mastodon.nz for the recommendation
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bigblen started reading Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
The classic book on systems thinking―with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!
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Got this from the library. Recommended in "Out of the Software Crisis"
Got this from the library. Recommended in "Out of the Software Crisis"
bigblen finished reading Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this …
Even with the opening "Lydia is dead", I wasn't prepared for the amount of heartbreak and tragedy that would unfold in this story.
Even with the opening "Lydia is dead", I wasn't prepared for the amount of heartbreak and tragedy that would unfold in this story.
bigblen finished reading Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself …
A really compelling read. Most of the time, everything on the surface is nice, but there is a constant feeling of unease (given that we know right from the start that a house has been burnt down, and somebody is missing)
A really compelling read. Most of the time, everything on the surface is nice, but there is a constant feeling of unease (given that we know right from the start that a house has been burnt down, and somebody is missing)
bigblen started reading The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in …
A christmas present
bigblen finished reading Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and …
Very interesting read, I'm going to re-read a good portion immediately. (I have the book for 4 weeks from the public library).
I have a niggling discomfort about the fact that while the author is critical of the extractivisim inherent in current AI practices (and by extension cloud computing in general), she does work for Microsoft Research - one of the corporations that is part of the problem.
Very interesting read, I'm going to re-read a good portion immediately. (I have the book for 4 weeks from the public library).
I have a niggling discomfort about the fact that while the author is critical of the extractivisim inherent in current AI practices (and by extension cloud computing in general), she does work for Microsoft Research - one of the corporations that is part of the problem.
bigblen started reading Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
Looks really interesting