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5mentions
4people
2024–2025years
60% recommend40% neutral
Mentions per year
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- My favorites that I read this year were:
- Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small - Orbital by Samantha Harvey: a book were not much happens, but a lot goes on below the surface - Hum by Helen Phillips: looks at an AI controlled near future through a different lens - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow: sex, lies, and video games
- Speaking of book recommendations, Pulitzer-winning author Richard Powers wrote a terrific (Booker-nominated) novel about the ocean, "Playground"[0].
- I'm reminded of "Playground", the extraordinary novel by Pulitzer-winning author Richard Powers, which includes a close look at phosphate mining in French Polynesia. Highly recommended.
- Not enough. Going to try to rein in some sustained attention in the new year.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Playground by Richard Powers
- Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
I'm curious how much AI-generated stuff I read this year... likely at least a book's worth, but it would be more like one of those books with 365+ random deep dives into stuff that's not really relevant to my life.
- >Move 37 was so astonishing the world champiion Go player, hardly known for theatrics, got up and left the table.
This is an incredibly minor nitpick, but I recently went down the rabbit hole of move 37[1] after reading Richard Powers' latest novel, Playground, and Sedol didn't get up, he was already away from the table. He did, however, take far longer to make his next move (iirc something like 12-15 minutes instead of 2-4).
1: A good start, maybe is <https://www.wired.com/2016/03/two-moves-alphago-lee-sedol-re...> and ofc wiki <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol>
