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40% complete! Mat has read 6 of 15 books.
When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she …
Adding to my to reading list after listening to an interview with the author on The Guardian's Today In Focus podcast. Apparently this is the book Sam Altman doesn't want you to read.
I tucked my hair behind my ears and watched the door to the exam room. After a minute a willowy woman with a baby boy came out. The baby was swinging a crystal from a string. I checked to see if he and I had a special connection that was greater than his bond with his mother. We didn't.
— First Bad Man by Miranda July (Page 2)
Only on the second page, and I'm already loving how Miranda July tells a story
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …
Never has a book made me feel so nostalgic for all the computer games I played growing up. The book is littered with references to games, both real and the ones created by book's characters, which tell a tale of friendship.
Before reading this book, I have to admit, I didn't have much of an understanding of our current economic system, or the history that shaped it. After reading it, I feel I have a much better understanding, which is quite timely given Trump's tariff war.
We think of Woolf and the Bloomsbury group as bedazzling standard-bearers of liberalism. Doris Lessing wrote in her fore-word to Carlyle's House, "We all wish our idols and exemplars were perfect; a pity she was such a wasp, such a snob-and all the rest of it-but love has to be warts and all. At her best she was a very great artist, I think, and part of the reason was that she was suffused with the spirit of 'they wished for the truth'-like her friends, and indeed, all of bohemia."
— Monsters by Claire Dederer (Page 124)
I didn't know that Virginia Woolf is problematic because of her antisemitic views. Doris Lessing says it well when she says we wish our idols were perfect, yet rarely they are.
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and …
A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this …
