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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
A snazzy red jacket, an evocative title, and glowing 5-star reviews. (Let’s not forget the cover blurbs by the CEOs of Microsoft and O’Reilly Media, amongst other prominent tech figures.) I have to say, when I eagerly began reading AI Superpowers, I was a little nervous – would this book live up to its Continue reading
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Go Set a Watchman
“US cover of Go Set a Watchman” by Source (WP:NFCC#4).Licensed under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_cover_of_Go_Set_a_Watchman.jpg" title="Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Go Set a Watchman“>Fair use via Wikipedia. I finished Go Set a Watchman the other night. Essentially I sat up in bed and started crying. At times (some might say all the time), Continue reading
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Two short reviews
In the past, I have written these in groups of four, but today I only have two books to review. They each get 4 out of 5 stars, so perhaps there is still uniformity to this, after all? To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee It would seem I should have more to say about this Continue reading
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