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Douglas’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Douglas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Douglas Summers-Stay
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SteamPunk Magazine #9
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Set in Lorain, huh? I don't know if I've ever heard of a book being set there.
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| A middle-grade book (so for 11-13 year olds). I thought it looked like an interesting portal fantasy from the cover, but it turned really preachy about discovering your own truth and sexuality or whatever. Look, I'm sure there are people who really f ...more | |
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| I found this one frustrating. They have a creaky old ship that is big but poorly built. They go on blockade, which is a lot of waiting with no action. They chase some ships, but fail to catch them. They try to provoke a fight, but the other captain d ...more | |
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| It goes through a lot of the technical and social aspects of LLMs, but 1. it was finished in December of 2023 so is outdated and 2. I have enough background knowledge in these areas that there was very little new to me in the book. | |
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| The author, Robert Coltman, was a doctor who was among those besieged in the legations during the Boxer rebellion. The book is a (mostly non-edited) collection of notes and journal entries by the doctor and his son about the period directly before an ...more | |
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| The author is a CTO at Google working in AI. The main idea of this book is that life that can reproduce itself has an internal model of itself. The same can be said of the self-- an entity with a self has an internal model of the world including a mo ...more | |
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
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| I've enjoyed Yudkowsky's writing for a long time-- at least 20 years. He's the author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, one of my favorite books. I have read most of what he has published online, which is quite a large body of work. So ...more | |
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| I think this is my favorite picture book to read. It is short (I am reading these books at the end of the day when I am exhausted), written poetically, beautifully illustrated, and thought-provoking. I also like Charlotte and the White Horse and Litt ...more | |
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| I bought this book and a later volume on reptiles, fishes, molluscs, &c. with a publication date of 1859-- the same year The Origin of Species was published. I'm reading an Aubrey-Maturin novel at the same time, which is set 40-50 years earlier, and ...more | |
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
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