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Review: Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews
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Review: The Wind Knows My Name

The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI

The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI by Stephen Welch My rating: 5 of 5 stars This a beautifully conceived and put together text book. I was blown away with the quality of the videos on YT and hence not surprised that the author has managed to put together such a high quality production in physical form. The book is heavy - in terms of weight - which meant it took some time and cost some dollars to ship to Singapore, but it was a joy to find it waiting outside my house. The book is hefty - in that it covers 70 years of machine learning from Rosenblatt’s perceptron to attention models and diffusion. When I started building neural networks in 1990 there were few accessible textbooks. I had to bribe one computer-scientist author with a bottle of wine to explain how to implement some of self organising algorithms. This has it all. Diagrams, models, beautiful illustrations and code. It also has some exercises, and the author has left wide margins for th...

Review: Great Ideas Miracles and Idolatry

Great Ideas Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: Solaris

Solaris by Stanisław Lem My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews