Sooch San Souci

The funny moments

Revisado: 02-03-25

The transition between narrators was somewhat disorienting in some cases and in other cases quite welcome.

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Detailed analysis

Revisado: 10-28-24

This is a book I can listen to 3 times or more and recommend widely. Thanks Yuval!

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Both the story and the reader were absolutely excellent!

Revisado: 10-22-24

I was completely enthralled both times I listened to the book in its entirety! Thank you.

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Powerful

Revisado: 06-03-23

This deserves to be listened to completely three times. Those who rate it negatively, appear annoyed by moments when discussions are not aligned with their beliefs. Well written, well read. Beware, much of the content is likely outside the average reader’s knowledge, yet the detail is splendid.

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Wonderful book!

Revisado: 01-23-23

Recording unfortunately highly resonant due to poor acoustics and and the audio engineer’s unawareness of speech quality.

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A very fine book

Revisado: 05-09-20

I enjoyed this such that I listened to it from cover to cover 3 times. I should mention that I originally was surprised that some reviews were surprisingly negative, which gave me pause. Now it appears to me that those reviews reflect people uncomfortable with discussions touching on where belief or religious views conflict with math and science. So be it. This is an old conflict. More surprising were what appeared to be hard core Republican and devoted Trumpers miffed by descriptions of the dangers that lay ahead if we ignore warnings provided by climate scientists. So be forewarned, there are a few comments that may annoy the thin skinned, it’s my way or the highway types. Further, the rich textured writing and refreshing vocabulary, so well read would probably not interest the pumpkins anyway. Great book. Inspiring author. Well read.

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Excellent Text as a Serious Introduction

Revisado: 08-23-19

Deep Learning with Python provides the required vocabulary, examples and overview to begin to understand how Python, Keras and TensorFlow are being used today to build predictive neural nets. I'm looking forward to François's followup text written for advanced programmers. The code examples are not read by the narrator, therefore the printed text is recommended as a support. A powerful way to retain this information is to read, then listen, then re-read, then re-listen to each chapter, following common guidelines for optimizing the interval between each visit. https://ncase.me/remember/ Part 2 "The Science of Spaced Repetition".

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How Numbers Work

Revisado: 07-12-19

Very well recorded and wonderfully read by Mark Elstob, in my opinion. I would have preferred the book to be twice as long. So, perhaps they will provide us with Volume 2 in the near future.

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Engaging, inspired, revealing,

Revisado: 11-17-18

Engaging, inspired, revealing, and I'm only on my second listening. For anyone that knows and studies the language of math, this is a fun listen that will fill gaps large and small. Already eager for my next listening. Enjoy...

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Horrible recording

Revisado: 11-11-18

Sounds to me like those who recorded this, did not notice the resonance of the reader's voice that resulted from the terribly resonant room in which the speaker sat while it was recorded. Sounded like a small wooden box or casket. I would expect better recording quality from middle-school students.
Listening to this annoying recording with headphones is painful to anyone accustomed to decently recorded speech. The room should not be audible; we should not hear the table on which the reader sets their notes; the compression on the voice should not exceed 3 dB; distance from the microphone to the face of the reader should be between 20 cm and 30 cm. A large-capsule static microphone with a high quality mic pre-amp should be used with minimal eq. All of these recommendations are rudimentary guidelines in professional audio engineering practice. Therefore, I would recommend that Audible screen the quality of the product they offer, and filter out mediocre work, or in this case low quality recordings. The reader was Ok, though at times, a bit monotonic, a bit long winded lacking a keen sense of pace and dynamic. Pronunciation errors could have been edited out. The story is wonderful in my opinion, so I would easily purchase this again and recommend it to others if someone would re-record the book in a good recording environment, and an audio engineer with an understanding of high-quality speech recording. I've listened to a dozen Audible books with audio quality ranging from fair to excellent. So it is with great disappointment to have to suffer through hours of low-grade audio.

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