matthew

I want a refund!

Revisado: 03-02-25

This is for a narrow group of business owners and it's about replacing people with voice by studying statistical data and narrowly focusing on the most common questions they call in with. Tobias calls it a bounded model. Hire humans snd stop trying to reduce them to bits of data to be consumed and served ads in hopes of conversion. Voice has a long way to go before replacing digital transmission. It's far from perfect and currently has limited uses. People dont like synth voices that sound too human,because their organic beings in a real world.

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Sanctamonious author

Revisado: 02-03-23

The first half of the book features some excellent examples that are easy to follow and logical. However, the 2nd. part features a four chapter diatribe that pitches optimistic, pragmatic and catostrophic outcomes as they relate to the pregression of Ai from narrow intelligence to an all encompassing utility that basically wants to optimize human beings as if they are machines is both creepy and intolerable. In the final chapter the writer suggests Canada would be a great place to lead AI meetings. I am sure the scientists now residing in sunny California will want to visit the frigid French influence Quebec, because they will be free of any bias whatsoever. The internet wants to make everyone accepting of all ideologies and lifestyles, a kind of omnivorous culture, but in so many ways a good thing has gone off the rails. There are many people who want free will and do not conform so readily to technology. AI may be computationally superior in some narrow tasks than humans, but computers are a reflection of mankind, which is at best fallible and prone to errors, so whatever plan to make people conform and obey will likely be met with staunch resistance, unless people are blissfully hypnotized into a kind of zombie apocolypse, which could also be a possible outcome. I dont subscribe to idealouges and their platitudes and will fail to comply with directives that strive to curtail my individuality and so should you.

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Lousy Experience

Revisado: 01-24-23

Long, rambling intro with constant reference to upcoming material. Footnotes with abbreviations were not self explanatory and destroyed my focus. The narrator is somnalent. 4 hours in I gave up. There are some good things on Audible +, but for me this was an Audible-.

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Provacative Cover

Revisado: 01-15-23

This is more about all the reasons to doubt stocastical data. There are numerous statstical examples and the author is somewhat funny, but I thought Salt, Sugar and Fat was much more educational.

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50 percent discernable 50 percent abstruse

Revisado: 12-13-22

The beginning and the end I could understand, but much of this book is hard to grasp. What happened to the easy to understand anecdotes? The snowflake analogy redux. This is a collection of other people's theories. Nothing at all on the Digital Dollar.

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Father and Daughter connect with climbing

Revisado: 09-05-22

Finnegan's book about surfing is descriptive and compelling. It is really his autobiography. This is brief and sentimental with a glimmer or two of Barbarian Days, but it wasnt nearly as good.

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Dissection of corporate betrayal

Revisado: 04-13-22

The story of the gold mine driven by a clown car asMark Zuckerberg said. It seems the story of Twitter mirrors that of Apple on some levels. The four founders Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone is frought with power plays and deceit. Noah was the first founder to be squeezed out and left quietly. Next Jack, seemingly the concept guy was squeezed out, but went on to found Square. Dorsey is a narcissist and was seething to be pushed out by Evan,who was replaced by Dick Costello, who was mentoring Evan at the time. Evan was notoriously slow to make decisions and with 7 total board members when Jack returned his vote to oust Evan from CEO to Product Design was secured. The main difference between these two control freakx is Jack wants people to be able to talk about themselves and Evan wants people to talk about what is going on around them. Both of these idea are together what made Twitter what it is. Their involvement in Iraq, supplanting the biased news wires and politics is by no mean accidental. Biz Stone got his start as a Hacktivist. Someone who leads protests on line. When you wonder why the world has gone somewhat mad in 2022. Some of that has to do with such fringe groups like this establishing a platform to allow people to speak or delete their accounts if they dont fit the narrative. Dorsey is said to be a man of few words. How ironic it is he helped create a comminication company. It is clear that the on line world is rapidly becoming a refuge from actual communication in the real world, which seems to be its overiding goal.

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This is 5 interwoven perspectives

Revisado: 03-04-22

The story of Trader Joes, a long haul trucker, undercover work at a Whole Foods and the most compelling part of all is about a Burmese fisherman who was essentially a slave at sea that lost his hand while grinding out 20 hour shifts. The convenience and price consumers depend upon is leveraged by taking advantage of a vast underclass of people who provide their efficient labor for very little to zero compensation. This was under Audible Plus, but is an excellent listen that truly raised my awareness of the world. It ends a 19 book 4 month binge of numerous worthy titles that were uncovered within Audible Plus.

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Slow, but Neccessary Start

Revisado: 01-07-22

The organization of this book is a bit odd. The 5 other characters are not introduced immediately. There are many mu dane details that made me feel I wanted to give up, however, the bear attack is vividly described and the dream Alex has afterwards was also a great story. As a few other listeners said Alex has a very monotonus and even an unenthusiastic voice. It did complement the spare environment they chose to traverse and the listener will get the idea that not only was Alex young, just 17, at that time, but he is also a sensative and thoughtful young man. He could have tried to describe the harsh environment more completely. He could have diverged by talking about the other 5 guy and the group of girls on a parallel trip that briefly inersects, but this is a character driven plot and is mostly about Alex and his ordeal. The cover was very striking and now I know what an Inukshuk and an esker. Alex clearly loves the wilderness and returns to guide other young people.

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An Inclusive Brief History of the US martial arts

Revisado: 01-06-22

Most of it is about Bruce Lee and the personalities that became his friends and got him thinking about cross training in other martial arts. Ed Parker, Jimmy Lee, Leo Fong, Wally Jay and a few others were the pioneers of martial arts in the US. The book concludes with a fued between Bruce and Long Jak Man and Bruce's opportunity to be in movies. It was nice they left out his tragic death after he catapulted to stardom on the silver screen, but perhaps that is another book in itself.

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