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Daniel Feldman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram
Daniel FeldmanDaniel Feldman

@PimentelES1987 @stephen_wolfram He is clearly a genius, but I think he overreached with his book A New Kind of Science Included many "new" proofs that had already been discovered and widely discussed, and seems to have been partially ghostwritten This understandably made a lot of people irritated

Paperback, 2019

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Perceptron: Second Edition, Gerard Blokdyk

Perceptron: Second Edition

Gerard Blokdyk
Daniel FeldmanDaniel Feldman

This is Marvin Minsky. His book Perceptrons, published in 1969, argued forcefully that statistical machine learning methods like neural networks were a dead end, and symbolic logic was the only way forward. This academic battle arguably set AI research back by decades https://t.co/X1EWdiaraA

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Book Cover for: The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King
Daniel FeldmanDaniel Feldman

white people will really use the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. to justify firing hundreds of people to juice profit margins

Paperback, 2023

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson
Daniel FeldmanDaniel Feldman

I only learned the term "wet bulb temperature" from Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future Always a good sign when things from apocalyptic sci-fi novels start coming up in real life

Paperback, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mars, Percival Lowell

Mars

Percival Lowell
Daniel FeldmanDaniel Feldman

Percival Lowell was a wealthy gentleman astronomer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Today, he is mostly known for predicting "Planet X" (Pluto) in 1906 At the time though, he was famous for seeing "canals" on Mars and "spokes" on Venus, obvious evidence of alien life... https://t.co/zCaFBXPz8K

Paperback, 2020

$31.90$15.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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