Daniel Feldman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
@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
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Perceptron: Second Edition
Gerard Blokdyk
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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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King
white people will really use the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. to justify firing hundreds of people to juice profit margins
Paperback, 2023
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The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
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
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Mars
Percival Lowell
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
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