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A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- De: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,532
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,245
For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Starts out good, ends up a train wreck
- De Warren en 03-15-21
- A Thousand Brains
- A New Theory of Intelligence
- De: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
- Narrado por: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
Long-winded, out of date
Revisado: 09-17-24
Skip this book. The core of the book can be best understood via a 30 minute YouTube video. The future predictions were out of date even when they were being made. Somehow Hawkins didn’t know about progress in NLP or the early language models? Yikes.
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Real-World Cryptography
- De: David Wong
- Narrado por: Derek Dysart
- Duración: 13 h y 49 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 3
Real-World Cryptography teaches practical techniques for day-to-day work as a developer, sysadmin, or security practitioner. There’s no complex math or jargon. You’ll learn building blocks like hash functions and signatures, and cryptographic protocols like HTTPS and secure messaging. This audiobook is a joy to listen to - and it might just save your bacon the next time you’re targeted by an adversary after your data.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book, but better when read than listened
- De Markus Läll en 04-01-22
- Real-World Cryptography
- De: David Wong
- Narrado por: Derek Dysart
Abysmal narration
Revisado: 01-06-24
The narrator blunders his way through. His frequent and painful mispronunciations warrant a Bingo card. What kind of editors and production team let this level of performance go uncorrected? I'm baffled. Also, the narrator entirely skips over many figures destroying any ability to follow the details e.g. of RSA. Avoid this audiobook at all costs.
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Free Will
- De: Mark Balaguer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
In our daily lives, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like these; if we are then we have free will. But in recent years, some have argued that free will is an illusion. The neuroscientist (and best-selling author) Sam Harris and the late Harvard psychologist Daniel Wegner, for example, claim that certain scientific findings disprove free will.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Basic Intro. Could be summed up in a 15min YouTube video.
- De Serial Amazon Shopper en 06-20-24
- Free Will
- De: Mark Balaguer
- Narrado por: Steven Menasche
Severely lacking: stay away
Revisado: 07-12-23
This might be the worst philosophy book I’ve ever read (out of dozens). Given that this is a philosophy book by a philosophy professor, I expect a certain level of quality. This book fails to meet that bar. Balaguer’s book is dragged down by numerous flaws:
- Free will involves a fascinating web of ideas, but somehow this book squanders the liveliness of the topic.
- It does not introduce the essential basics of quantum physics. This would form a basis for discussing possible connections between free will and QP. Such an intro could be done in a few paragraphs; I’m dumbstruck at this omission.
- Substantively, I find his explanation of torn decisions to be poorly introduced and argued. It comes out of nowhere, and yet is central to his views. But the logic supporting it is dubious. (Even if you agree with Balaguer’s emphasis on torn decisions, I think you will grant his writing gets in his own way.)
- He makes too many off-hand remarks. For example, Balaguer makes wild claims like (paraphrased) ‘the world would not change at all if everyone agreed that there was no free will’. Such a claim is implausible and no support is given for it.
- The style is painful. This is a widespread complaint among the comments here.
- Nitpick: Calling people that deny free will “enemies of free will” is unnecessary, uncharitable, and distracting. Hopefully we’re all trying to seek the truth; someone who denies free will is not an “enemy” of it. This kind of imprecise and annoying writing should not have gotten past the editors.
- The numerous fascinating implications and questions about free will don’t get discussed at all. For example: if free will doesn’t exist, how does this mesh with most peoples lived experience?
Note: I actually listened to this book via Audible. The narrator is a ham, but that’s probably because he wanted to exude the author’s style. So, well done, Mr. Narrator. (Could you imagine a serious, straight-faced narrator reading this book?)
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