Mark Vogt

INTERESTING READ. MEMOIRE STYLE ADDS FLAVOR TO FACTS

Revisado: 08-03-23

GLAD I bought the book

TO AUTHOR
1. IF. you want to know if the snails were EATEN or just crept into each excavation, examine each site for traces of LIME-TYPE ROCK that could fir in your palm like a bar of soap. These stones are STILL in use across central Africa as part of preparing snails. By first SKEWERING the snail & deftly twisting, the snails are easily extracted from their shells. Then by rubbing the lime on their bodies they IMMEDIATELY EXCRETE all their SLIME, which was as detestable THEN as it is NOW. If you FIND these stones near the SITE or near any WATER SOURCE, you’ll have a very strong case that your snails WERE prepared and EATEN, as opposed to being scavengers…

2. The front incisor removal would have been an obvious sign marking a SLAVE, so you now have the unhappy duty of exploring the theory that SLAVE TRADING was alive & well even 10,000 or more years ago. I will watch for you to explore this

Good luck,

Mark Vogt, AI Data Scientist, North Aurora IL (USA)

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Text to Speech ‘reader’ is awful. After chapter 1 couldn’t tolerate it. Want a refund

Revisado: 07-13-23

I want my money back.Period.

‘Reader’ says things like “architexture” instead of “architecture” - it’s beyond annoying.

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!

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SIMPLY STELLAR. HAVE ALREADY LISTENED OVER 20 TIMES

Revisado: 10-09-22

SO MUCH IS PACKED INTO THIS.BOOK…

DARE to listen at night as you sleep, and you will want to listen again & again & again.

Rarely has learning about such new & esoteric subject as genetic marker tracing been SO engaging - THIS is why you keep listening multiple times.

And the narrator was nothing short of masterful! Truly understanding both her topic & her audience. Her grandkids must look forward to her every visit.

This the quality of book which finds one asking “What ELSE have these two (author & narrator) produced?’…

MUST READ.

Mark Vogt, Data Scientist, North Aurora IL USA

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GOOD content; MEDIOCRE narration by uneducated narrator…

Revisado: 04-28-22

A COMMON MISTAKE SO MANY CAPABLE “AI” AUTHORS MAKE IS THE “LAZY” SELECTION OF NARRATORS WHO MIGHT HAVE “GOOD” SPEAKING VOICES… BUT MISERABLE, ALMOST EMBARRASSING “2ND-GRADER” VOCABULARIES !

THIS book suffers from JUST this fate:
Good SPEAKING VOICE
EMBARRASSING VOCABULARY

Let me provide an example…
I wasn’t even a few minutes into the book, expecting COLLEGE-level content AND COLLEGE-level “DELIVERY” when I heard the narrator talk about the “cah-MULE-a-give” effect of some form of AI training method…

I CRINGE when I come across the MISPRONUNCIATION of such terms, because they invariably mean 2 things:
1. a LAZY NARRATOR who prides himself ONLY on his SPEAKING VOICE, but NOT on his actual command of English VOCABULARY; and
2. a LAZY AUTHOR who WRONGLY selected THIS sort of Narrator.

The term CUMULATIVE is ONLY pronounce “KYUME-you-la-tive” no matter in WHICH country you learned English !

@the AUTHOR: your book would do BETTER if YOU SELF-NARRATED it. Stop being lazy - ALL the truly EXCELLENT authors (listen to the SPARK books) are SELF-NARRATED.
@the NARRATOR: if you’re trying make a CAREER out of narration, then TAKE YOURSELF SERIOUSLY, and develop a larger vocabulary than someone who only got through elementary school. The CUMULATIVE getting MIS-PRONOUNCED should EMBARRASS you. And DON’T be annoyed at ME - I’M the one reviewer bother to provide you with truly CONSTRUCTIVE feedback that WIIL make you a BETTER narrator. If you ARE serious about narration as a CAREER, then you’ll THANK me for spending THIS much time critiquing (no it’s NOT pronounced “CRY-TYKE-ing”) you at all…

@BOTH OF YOU…
You may NOT be aware of this, but I DON’T think it’s possible to RETURN audiobooks and get REFUNDED, so it’s ANNOYING when you plunk down over $10 on a “read” that has you CRINGING in fearful anticipation of the NEXT miserably-pronounced term.

Do better.

Data Scientist Mark in North Aurora, IL USA

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An excellent start - NOW let’s begin talking about HOW to solve Cameroon’s key problems…

Revisado: 04-13-22

The podcaster is PASSIONATE, DETERMINED and CALLED - all essential ingredients for a podcast capable of producing GENUINE CHANGE, NOT merely at the level of a FAMILY, a NEIGHBORHOOD or a COMMUNITY…but at the level of a NATION.

There is much this young podcaster still has to LEARN from her “elders” she considers so jaded & powerless. They are up to MORE than SHE realizes, and “slow rivers run deep” - there is a deep & untapped sense of patriotism driving all Cameroonians - even those taking action to separate this beloved nation…

There is much this young podcaster still can TEACH her elders, the greatest lesson which might be this: people no longer need to wait for a “better” time for change; THE BEST TIME FOR CHANGE IS NOW.

The lessons & answers both this podcaster AND her elders seek HAS YET TO BECOME CLEAR… THIS MAY BE THE TRUE PURPOSE OF THIS PODCAST.

The BEST Podcasts are JOURNEYS which only BEGIN with making clear the QUESTIONS, the CORE PROBLEMS (an activity Cameroons love to get LOST in discussing), but which then spend far far MORE of their time actually attempting to ANSWER.

DISCOVERING “actionable” answers to THESE questions is my hope for this podcast.

Mark Edward “Etengeneng” Vogt, in lifelong love affair with Cameroon since 1987

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ENJOYABLE READ - Listened at least 10 times & counting!

Revisado: 03-06-22

There are books with SO much to tell you and SO well-composed that you enjoy listening again & again & again, each time absorbing yet more information about an important topic…
… this is one such book.

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STELLAR BOOK - YOU”LL LISTEN OVER & OVER

Revisado: 03-04-22

Wonderful, engaging, fast-paced storytelling.

Truly masterful narration.

This team of author & narrator is all-too-rare.
Off to find more of this duo”s efforts!

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EXCELLENT Guest Speaker re: circuitPython on MCUs !

Revisado: 02-10-22

IT’S NOT AN EASY TASK to explain circuitPython on MCUs in a VIDEO…

IT’S even HARDER to explain circuitPython on MCUs on a PODCAST…
…but THIS episode of REAL PYTHON does an EXCELLENT job!

EXCELLENT choice of GUEST…

EXCELLENT explanations of FOUNDATIONAL TERMS: Python, microPython(s), circuitPython, C++, Adafruit, PCB, SBC, microcontroller vs microcomputer, compiled vs interpreted code, and more…

EXCELLENT compare & contrast of microCONTROLLERS vs microCOMPUTERS…

EXCELLENT ANALOGIES and CORRECTIONS and CLARIFICATIONS from the Guest re: devices-as-APIs (I DESPISE how SLOPPY an entire generation is about the MEANINGS of such critical terms, so THIS Guest’s SOLID and EASY grasp of these topics RENEWED my faith in the current generation!)…

EXCELLENT handling of all the sometimes-on-topic, sometimes-OFF-topic comments, understandings & questions the interviewer asks…

Would RECOMMEND to new and veteran Python-on-MCU developers !

- Mark Vogt, Principal Solution Architect/Data Scientist, AVANADE

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The SECOND-most powerful force on earth is… guilt.

Revisado: 02-08-22

It’s amazing the lengths to which guilty people will go to HIDE their guilt, cover their tracks and convince everyone - even THEMSELVES - that the source of guilt never happened. Yet even as guilty people try to hide from their past, hide from their choices, hide from their actions, hide from those they harmed, thinking this will suffice to allow them to start anew…
…they cannot hide from their GUILT. Or JUSTICE.

Every day JUSTICE will be waiting outside Mark’s office door in Perth - an unseen visitor with an unopened letter. Waiting. Waiting for Mark to finally open the door. Every day GUILT will try to hide on the other side of that door…

But Guilty is only the SECOND-most powerful force on earth.
JUSTICE is the MOST powerful, and TIME and man’s innate need for TRUTH are it’s greatest weapons.

This story isn’t over.

Not all stories can be told in a single telling. A single podcast. A single “season”. That is a false constraint imposed by a podcast Producer.

No, some stories are over only when Justice win out over Guilt.

Mark will yield.
He knows the unjustice he’s inflicted on his colleague Ahmed.
And he realizes now that even while he’s run to the edge of the world, he hasn’t escaped the guilt of something he’s done.

This story isn’t over.
Close…but NOT over.

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You WILL be reading this MANY TIMES !

Revisado: 02-02-22

GREAT read !

GREATER AUDIO BOOK - because you're going to find yourself listening to this book over & over & over, each time absorbing different thoughts, even as the authors (credible and card-carrying SCIENTISTS themselves) must have gradually "absorbed" each minor revelation and epiphany from their independent decades-long field work. And even as these scientists-authors gradually found each epiphany either pushing them AWAY from the Beringea-First Theory or pulling the TOWARD their own fledgling-but-inconceivable SOLUTREANS-FIRST Theory, they do a masterful job of taking you the Reader on that same journey !

It's REFRESHING to have a book authored by writers who treat their audience, their readers as PEERS; and not even "like-minded" peers, but simply "open-minded" peers, each possessing a reasonable level of intelligence and common sense.

I'm 60 years old and a professional Data Scientist/AI Solution Architect.
I've long thought that there was "something missing" in the Beringea-First Theory. It simply doesn't seem complete.

The authors Bradley and Stanford do a masterful, comfortable, peer-level job of offering objectively examining ALL of the FACTS currently available in North America, in Northeast Asia (Beringea) and in Northwest Europe (Solutrea), and ALLOWING themselves to FOLLOW these facts toward what SIMPLE MAKES SENSE given ALL the current data: Solutreans ARE Clovis and WERE the EARLIEST peoples in North America.

For this northern Minnesotan who learned to build "quanchees" (igloos built in MINUTES from simply shoveling snow into a pile and then digging it out) even when he was a young boy, actually living and THRIVING outside in the cold & snow is no big deal, so it WOULDN'T have been a big deal to the Solutreans any more than today's INUITS. The authors do an excellent job of DRIVING THAT POINT HOME - that the Solutreans WEREN'T "fighting the elements, hoping desperately for LAND", but rather quite the OPPOSITE: the Solutreans were AT HOME on the edge of the ice and water, because THAT'S WHERE THEIR FOOD SUPPLY WAS.

HERE'S a final note I jotted down in my audiobook in the final chapter:
The "universe" of the Solutreans DIDN'T include the (silly) rule "Stay close to LAND";
The "universe" of the Solutreans DID include the (intelligent) rule "Stay close to your FOOD SUPPLY"
The "universe" of the Solutions ALSO included the (intelligent) rule "If it's safe for your FOOD SUPPLY, it's safe for YOU"
The Solutreans food supply was (likely) SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS and WHALES
We already know from research in antarctica that KRILL actually THRIVE in the waters off the ICE EDGE;

SO...
The KRILL lived and thrived at the EDGE of the ICE...
The FISH (and BALEEN WHALES too I suppose) followed the KRILL...
The SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS followed the FISH...
The SOLUTREANS followed the SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS and WHALES...

NO BIG DEAL.

The KRILL "MIGRATED" along the Labrador Current from EAST to WEST...
The FISH "MIGRATED" with the KRILL...
The SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS and WHALES "MIGRATED" with the FISH...
The SOLUTREANS "MIGRATED" with the SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS and WHALES.

Only NO ONE was thinking "hey I'm MIGRATING"
- NOT the KRILL
- NOT the FISH
- NOT the SEAL or AUKS or PENGUINS or WHALES
- NOT the SOLUTREANS

Instead their "universe" was much SMALLER and more FOCUSED than that: "I'm going where there's FOOD"

Eventually the SEALS and AUKS and PENGUINS arrived on the SHORE of a distance land.
The SOLUTREANS were right on their heels.
THAT land is now under 300+ feet of melted iced (seawater).
BUT...
There were almost certainly myriad EGG-LAYING LAND BIRDS LAYING EGGS IN CLIFFS up there in eastern North America.
The SOLUTREANS would have SEEN these populations, and went after their EGGS.
Eggs up in the CLIFFs.
Cliffs which were present during the Last Glacial Maximum.
Cliffs which are STILL AROUND TODAY.
The Solutreans - be COMPLETE & UTTER NOMADS capable of traveling and living ANYWHERE - would almost certainly have SET UP CAMPS near the EGGS in the CLIFFS; I mean WHY WOULDN'T THEY?
Cliffs that were above ground 30,000 YEARS ago...
Cliffs that are above ground EVEN TODAY.

Perhaps we're TRYING TOO HARD seeking for evidence of Solutreans UNDER WATER that was shoreline 30 millenia ago.
Perhaps we SHOULD be seeking for evidence of Solutreans IN THE CLIFFS that are STILL "CLIFFS" even today.

What we should find are STONE TOOLS, quite alright...
... AND remnants of SLEDS that were easily transformed into BOATS which were just-as-easily-transformed into SHELTERS and maybe even SLEDS again, because that's what the INUITS can do TODAY, and it only makes sense that the SOLUTREANS were equal as "TRANSFORMERS" living in between worlds of land and ice and water.

HOW WE'LL KNOW WE'VE FOUND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR...
- we'll see SLED remnants with HOLES that DON'T NEED TO BE THERE
- holes hinting that the PARTS of the SLEDS were at one time SOMETHING ELSE - like an UMIAK portable/flexible/EDIBLE boat !
- we'll see SHELTER remnants with PARTS and HOLES that DON'T NEED TO BE THERE
- holes and parts hinting that the SHELTER was at one time SOMETHING ELSE - a SLED. a BOAT. a TOOL.

WHAT WE WON'T FIND:
- a HEARTH or signs of PERMANENT dwelling and WOOD BURNING, because Solutreans DIDN'T BURN wood, but OIL.

WHAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND:
- We have to look for what the Solutreans actually USED and actually DISCARDED and actually LEFT;
- We have to STOP looking for what Solutreans DIDN'T use and DIDN'T discard and DIDN'T leave.


Enjoyed the HECK out of this book !
-Mark Vogt, North Aurora IL USA

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