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Different is not bad!

Revisado: 03-20-18

A delightful message to be transmitted to children but this sweet bunny. Short, but important in these times. Good work!

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Fictional science at best with even more feminism

Revisado: 01-11-18

If you have any interest in science and in dragons, this is meant for you. Or at least, I felt it was nade for me, and I am almost finishing a PhD.

This volume is centered around an expedition to a tropical country/colony and the study of the dragons therein. As before, little by little we learn about these dragons. And the continuity from book I is pretty nice. Supposing you read it, this book is when she lost the knife she mentioned losing in swamps in the previous book.

Also, the value placed on gender gap issues certainly makes a plus for it. Very worth it!

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Fascinating!

Revisado: 01-08-18

It is perhaps the audiobook I listened to the fastest! The scientific and renaissance air blend beautifully in this book, which is mainly one large expedition with its relevant background, fashioned as a memoirs. Loved it!

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Interesting way of finishing (no spoilers)

Revisado: 10-28-17

Overall nice. It keeps a good enough connection through the book, but I was a bit disappointed with the underlying story structure. The world is essentially a video-game made into a book. This includes common clear hints on several secrets. Also, I didn’t like the musky beginning, but fair enough.

On the bright side, there are good plot twists unveiled towards the end. And though the main character is no genius, no stupid either, landing what I find a reasonable trail of/for growth.

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A great continuation, but the end...

Revisado: 10-09-17

If you've gone through the series, there is not much to say but that it is incredibly amusing in its own way. However, I found the end, the very end, quite forced its way to assure another volume. Also, Tim has been my favorite character through the series, but not through this book. Seems toke that the character changed somehow, a bit inconsistent in my opinion. I hope for a recovery.

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The voice editing has flaws, but the story is great!

Revisado: 07-07-17

Seriously, this book redefined my standards for evaluation. I loved the approach on how to tell a great epic story with "normal" and "supernatural" nuances everywhere. The main character essentially tells the beginning of his old quest in a very captivating way that made me want to listen to every bit. A few points were edited over for some necessity which drops the overall quality of the recording, but no loss at all!

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Interesting, though might be useful to have the physical book

Revisado: 05-31-17

Since it is essentially a list of laws with their explanation, having a physical copy of the book that can be quickly consulted seems to be a good idea.

Now, personally, I think it neglects the other side of these laws most of the time. Although every chapter takes into account the reversal of the law in case, these laws involve a person conduct and how it is perceived in its surroundings. But what about the surroundings? What when you are not in the position of the king and State, but in the position of the folks and servants? This is addressed, but not always, or only superficially. Well, I suppose this could double the length of the book, making a second one, perhaps. As an example, when he says one should avoid envy, what if you find yourself in the envious side? There is a line on that, but not much more. So, overall really good, but not complete.

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Enlightening

Revisado: 12-19-16

An introduction to some of the most commonly used algorithms in computation that have clear applications to our lives, with concrete lessons and examples in it. A very good book. I'd add to the optimization section te new concurrent of simulated annealing and monte-carlo method: quantum annealing and quantum monte-carlo. If you can't go down your present hill for whatever the reason, gliding from one to another maybe just an option to take.

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It gets better and better

Revisado: 10-15-16

Sincerely, I didn't like the starting cliche. But for those who know d&d, there are some really nice jokes. Still, as the plot develops, the whole story gets much better, very much as a dnd game indeed in a funny way. So, it is certainly a story from fan to fans, that can really be quite enjoyable. Definitely gonna listen to the continuation, for even the end is a nice cut.

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Interesting, but a bit exaggerated

Revisado: 08-24-16

First of all, if you are interested in the topic of super intelligence, I do recommend it. But bear in mind the first warning of the author throughout the whole book: it is jot a comprehensive evaluation.

This said, I should explain what didn't please me. I'm a theoretical physicist, so math and computers are not strange to me. And from my vantage point, the author seems to rely a lot in divergences to build up an apocalyptic scenario. For the proposed discussion, we need to accept it, but divergences always hide interesting phenomena that the author overlooks. Besides, divergences tend to be suppressed by some sort of interaction. This, in the end, the author does take into consideration later on (to avoid spoilers, I'll not discuss what I mean by interaction in this context), to make ways to avoid the apocalyptic end. So, I think it is a fair approach, but sincerely not to my taste.

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