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2024 Reads: Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot 📚
A wonderful, brilliant book. Harriot’s humor combined with his blunt recounting of a black perspective of American history is a must-read for white Americans like me.
Time to go Turkey Trot!
It’s 24F here in in rural southwestern Wisconsin. Why did I sign up for this again?!? 😂
Packing up the car this morning to visit my mom. First holiday season since my dad passed. Thankful that we have family and friends to share the day with tomorrow. It won’t make his absence any the less but will make it more bearable.
Good to see the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team finally get a little respect, ranked at #22 in this week’s AP poll. Without Caitlin Clark and Kate Martin they’re probably not a Final Four team again this year, but early on they look like they can still be B1G title contenders.
Look, Max and Red Bull Racing had a phenomenal year this year. But every article that trumpets him as a “four-time world champion” should have a giant asterisk next to it that says “Abu Dhabi 2021”. #F1
In the office this week for a couple of days before the Thanksgiving holiday. Have a feeling it’s gonna be really quiet in here. Time to get some work done!
2024 Reads: 2054 by Elliot Ackerman 📚
It wanted to be insightful and futurist, but ended up being thin and disappointing.
2024 Reads: Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman 📚
A detailed, compelling history of the Israeli intelligence services. Lots to think about. Such a mess in so many ways. But a really good read.
My unsolicited opinion this morning on AI, speaking as a computer scientist who has spent the last year working on AI-based tools: there are some things that LLMs and neural networks are very useful for. The kind of things that companies are popularly promoting AI for are not those things.
