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Ronald Gruner
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We the Presidents: How a Century of Presidents from Harding to Trump Forged Today's America
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COVID Wars: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom
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Short Essays for Inquiring Minds
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Short Essays for Inquiring Minds
For weekly "Short Essays for Inquiring Minds" on a range of topics from artificial intelligence to U.S. history visit RonaldGruner.Substack.com .
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| As a former engineer, I like this book's objective of developing a data-driven, non-partisan presidential scorecard. Five presidents from Clinton through Biden are each graded based on five weighted criteria: the economy (30%), foreign policy (20%), ...more | |
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| I just finished "Rebecca" after reading science and history non-fiction almost exclusively the last few years. It's an enjoyable, immersive book from the viewpoint of an unnamed young women who is swept up into marriage, the mistress of an English Ma ...more | |
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| Some may disagree, but I believe the core idea in this book is that technology--namely artificial intelligence (AI)-- is making it inevitable that sometime in the near future every student can have a personal, full-time teacher who understands them a ...more | |
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| I found this book to be a credible account of the Covid pandemic and what we, hopefully, learned from it. As one Amazon reviewer noted, our individual experiences during the pandemic differed widely. Many people naturally view Covid, vaccines, lockdo ...more | |
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The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
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| You'll need some background in mathematics and artificial intelligence to appreciate this book. It's largely a recounting of artificial intelligence research conducted since the nineteen-fifties. I found the book informative although much of the disc ...more | |
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| This is not a book you breeze through. David Parson's latest book discusses the paradoxes that confounded mathematicians and scientists in the 17th century as scientific discoveries such as planetary motion raised, at the time, unanswerable questions ...more | |
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| The cover of Chris Emery's latest book says, "Short vignettes, hopefully entertaining." That's accurate. This small book consists of fifteen recollections starting when he was eight years old conniving ways to avoid church through his years as a Whit ...more | |
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| I am a fan of the author, David Parsons, and have read many of his books. Every book takes a fresh approach. "Gravity," for example, was written so that a precocious middle-schooler can calculate the weight of the sun using simple, logical mathematic ...more | |
“The modern politician is less interested in being a hero than a superstar. Heroes walk alone; stars derive their status from approbation. Heroes are defined by inner”
― We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
― We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
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