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brib finished reading Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
"In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the …
brib wants to read Mazes for programmers by Jamis Buck
I started working on this several years back, and I found it an excellent way to refine my programming skills, as well as a heck of a lot of fun. It reminded me of that feeling of "magic" when I first started programming, that I could put instructions into a machine and get a maze out of it.
Foolishly, I bought the e-book from Amazon, got rid of my Kindle because it turned out to be a money sink, then forgot to de-DRM it before Amazon revoked this ability. This means buying it again, probably in actual printed format - alas
I started working on this several years back, and I found it an excellent way to refine my programming skills, as well as a heck of a lot of fun. It reminded me of that feeling of "magic" when I first started programming, that I could put instructions into a machine and get a maze out of it.
Foolishly, I bought the e-book from Amazon, got rid of my Kindle because it turned out to be a money sink, then forgot to de-DRM it before Amazon revoked this ability. This means buying it again, probably in actual printed format - alas
brib finished reading The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
The AI Con by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing the real harm these technologies …
brib reviewed The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
The AI Con - A Review
5 stars
An excellent overview of the harms and pitfalls of modern AI systems, in particular generative AI. Because I'm terminally online, I was already fairly familiar with most of the arguments, but what this book does excellently is collate them all into one place, as well as making them accessible for people new to the topic. Oh, and it's chock full of references, which will be incredibly useful for my own research
An excellent overview of the harms and pitfalls of modern AI systems, in particular generative AI. Because I'm terminally online, I was already fairly familiar with most of the arguments, but what this book does excellently is collate them all into one place, as well as making them accessible for people new to the topic. Oh, and it's chock full of references, which will be incredibly useful for my own research