Nathan Burnham

Not even close to Blind sight and Echopraxia

Revisado: 12-24-22

Not even close to Blind sight and Echopraxia.

I'm reviewing this after reading this whole series.
I loved blind sight and recently heard and read Echopraxia which was also amazing. I figured I'd look around at his other books. This book was good but not in the same class at all.

I would have told my earlier self to stop at Echopraxia given the chance unless you are really running out of amazing hard sci-fi.

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Better than the first book

Revisado: 12-21-22

The first book had fewer interesting ideas than this book.
Overall better in every dimension.

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TLDR buy Tesla stock

Revisado: 12-10-21

This book describes in great detail why you should buy Tesla stock. Great book, talks about long term value investing.

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The most important book I've read this year

Revisado: 12-07-21

I've read about 60 books so far this year and this one is by far the most important.

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Excellent

Revisado: 01-24-21

This book assumes you have some basic knowledge of quantum physics.

Like most of Greg Egan's books it has mind blowing concepts and a great story. This is my new favorite book of his behind permutation city and the orthogonal series.

If you enjoyed any of his other books don't skip this one.

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Blown away by the series

Revisado: 11-12-20

Wonderful story for nerds who love physics.
Definitely recommend the whole series.
I listened at 1.4 speed and the narration sounded good.

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Reads like a Malcolm Gladwell book

Revisado: 09-07-19

It reads more like a Malcolm Gladwell book than a book by a politician. It shows just how dire things are for most Americans and fortunately includes some good ideas on how to fix the problems.

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Enjoyable book on the history of heart medicine

Revisado: 06-26-19

The author makes it a very easy read. He is maybe a little too enthusiastic and a little too poetic for my taste but the content is top notch.
He discusses the history and usage of a bunch of techniques and ties it into his own experience as a surgeon.

Topics that I can remember:
A bunch of types of heart surgeries
Heart anatomy
Catheterization
Ballon Angioplasty
Defibrillators and implantable defibrillators
Pacemakers
Heart Transplants
Lifestyle factors that lead to heart disease

Definitely would recommend to anyone.

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Assumes that machine learning will grow very slow

Revisado: 05-06-17

As a founder of a robotics startup I work with and keep up to date with the bleeding edge of what we have accomplished in machine learning research.

At the core of this book it argues that machine learning will be narrow AI and will continue to be simple feed forward supervised neural networks for about 20 years.

This is very wrong. We have robust renforment learning, unsupervised learning, and models that integrate with memory. When just what we have working well in universities reaches buisness we will automate much more that what the author's predict. This also ignores that massive breakthroughs in ml are being discovered on the timescale of weeks not years.

They also say that some jobs will never be automated. Perhaps the author believes that there is something magical about the algorithm in the human brain which the physics of the universe prevents us from replicating.

Besides all that, this book is dumbed down and targeted at technically incompetent managers. It has a low information to fluff ratio and is afraid to go into much technical depth. This last point doesn't make it a bad book, just a bad book to me.

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Good information

Revisado: 02-28-17

This book had good information about the history, along with commercial and political interests.

The information was not strung out. I was probably they right Information density for the casual reader. I personally would have preferred it to be a bit denser.

The book went only a little bit bast the surface with technical electrical Information as well.

Overall it was good information and was not boring.

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