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Max tegmark artificial intelligence6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues-from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos. What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology-and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Snyder displayed almost uncanny insight into the intellectual, emotional and imaginative lives of boys and girls, a perspective gained in part through her years as a schoolteacher. ![]() Widely praised, and occasionally controversial for its dalliances with the occult, her work was recognized three times with the Newbery Honor, a top prize in children’s literature. Snyder was a beloved figure to millions of youngsters and former youngsters, who discovered her stories anew by reading them to their own children. The cause was a stroke, said her husband, Larry Snyder. ![]() 7 at a retirement community in Greenbrae, Calif. Zilpha Keatley Snyder, the prize-winning author of “The Egypt Game” and dozens of other novels that led young readers into the wondrous terrain between fantasy and reality, died Oct. ![]()
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Breathe by Sarah Crossan6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Sarah Crossan's thrilling and provocative novel is about passion, about yearning for something better, and about breaking free for the very first time. When the three cross paths, they will change everything. His best friend, Bea, is an Auxiliary who's never worried about anything but having enough air. Quinn's a Premium who's never had to worry about having enough air. or trapped? Or controlled? Alina's a revolutionary who believes we can save the environment. Now, while you still can." Ever since the Switch, when the oxygen levels plummeted and most of humanity died, the survivors have been protected in glass domes full of manufactured air. ![]() National Book Award Finalist Kathleen Duey called Breathe "An amazing story! Sit down. But what if you can't? And what if you think everything could be different? Three teens will leave everything they know behind in Sarah Crossan's gripping and original dystopian teen novel of danger, longing, and glimmering hope that will appeal to fans of Patrick Ness and Veronica Roth. If you want to survive, you pay to breathe. ![]()
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Hush hush book 26/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know if this girl is supposed to be rich in the stupid or what, but this is bad.Īlso at this point I think Patch is actually Nora's grandfather or great grandfather, angel genetics and family trees are wildly confusing in this book series. Nora keeps being explained to that she can't possibly have a relationship with him without him basically being erased from the earth, yet she keeps relapsing into asking why can't they be in a relationship. Patch reveals if you ever truly falls in love he'll go straight to hell so he breaks up with her and gets with the prettiest snootiest cheerleader. Lotta off page action in this series because I don't know what is going on in some scenes. On top of all that, Nora is willing to give up all of her hopes and dreams and the belief that she can live happily ever after with Patch. He now has her and he's aloof and unreceptive. ![]() I want you to keep that in mind, the guy who has been tormenting her for an entire book, stalking her, all this awful stuff. She's saying I love you, and doing all these nice things for him, but he's doing none of it back. Nora and Patch have been dating for two months. If that doesn't tell you what you're in for I don't know what will. The second book's draft was so bad that the author had to scrap it, and start over entirely. ![]()
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Greenglass house series6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I hoped to see that some of the guests would learn that had much in common and would forge bonds, even if they never started lasting relationships. Thus, I expected to see Milo find some closure for his doubts about wanting to know his biological family even though he loves the parents who adopted him. ![]() ![]() ![]() In such books as these, the seemingly disparate elements of the plot usually come together at the end. Unfortunately,though the book possesses all the ingredients to make a truly memorable read, the actual execution of the story left me feeling disappointed. Like Milo, each of the guests at the inn has old wound, an old loss, or an old flame for which they would like to find closure and, with the help of an enterprising pair of children, they may find that closure comes, not from secrecy and mistrust but from love and sharing. The summary of Greenglass House immediately caught my attention, promising one of those delightful middle-grade mysteries not only full of fun and quirk, but also full of heart. With the help of his new friend Meddy, Milo begins following the clues and exploring the house, hoping to learn more not only about the property’s history but also about his own. But despite the blizzard blowing in, the bell keeps ringing and more guests keep arriving, each harboring a secret somehow connected to the inn’s shadowy past. Twelve-year-old Milo always looks forward to the winter holidays when the smugglers’ inn run by his adoptive parents lies empty and he can spend time with his family. ![]()
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The red sea rules by robert morgan6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() View your current crisis as a faith builder for the future.Stay calm and confident, and give God time to work.Acknowledge your enemy, but keep your eyes on the Lord.Realize that God means for you to be where you are.In The Red Sea Rules, you will learn strategies to: Just as Moses and the Israelites became trapped between Pharaoh's rushing armies and the uncrossable Red Sea, so are we sometimes overwhelmed by life's problems. Using the Israelites' story in Exodus 14 as an example, Robert Morgan offers ten sound strategies for moving from fear to faith. As The Red Sea Rules makes comfortingly clear, He is in control. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who led us in will lead us out. ![]() It is certain that we will face difficulties and that God will allow them. ![]() The Red Sea Rules has been updated with new study questions. Bestselling author Robert Morgan offers ten strategies for dealing with hard times and discouragements in order to move from fear to faith-a divine protocol for handling life. ![]()
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Thérèse raquin by émile zola6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Camille having grown up, rescued from death, had contracted a shiver from the torture of the repeated shocks he had undergone. She vanquished them all by patience, care, and adoration. Madame Raquin struggled for fifteen years against these terrible evils, which arrived in rapid succession to tear her son away from her. ![]() The boy contracted every fever, every imaginable malady, one after the other. She adored him because she had shielded him from death, throughout a tedious childhood of constant suffering. The good lady, who had passed the half century, shut herself up in this solitary retreat, where along with her son Camille and her niece Therese, she partook of serene joy.Although Camille was then twenty, his mother continued to spoil him like a little child. The windows of the dwelling opened to the river and to the solitary hillocks on the opposite bank. ![]()
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Author claire keegan6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Furlong has risen from being spat upon in the schoolyard to owning a modest business, he is keenly aware that it "would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything." Indeed, the fate his mother escaped is embodied in the nearby "training school" run by nuns for girls who, imprisoned, work in the convent's commercial laundry. His mother, pregnant with him at 16 while in domestic service, was unexpectedly lucky in her employer, a Protestant widow who treated her and the child with kindness and generosity. It is 1985 and Bill Furlong, 39, married father of five daughters, is a fuel merchant in New Ross, County Wexford, in Ireland. "Small Things Like These" is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Claire Keegan, award-winning author of two collections of short stories and a novella, now gives us her best work yet. ![]()
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![]() Yet Kayleigh is good at her job, and she finds in her colleagues a group of friends-even a new girlfriend-and for the first time in her life, her future seems bright.īut soon the job seems to change them all, shifting their worlds in alarming ways. Kayleigh and her colleagues spend all day watching horrors and hate on their screens, evaluating them with the platform's ever-changing moderating guidelines. ![]() Her task: review offensive videos and pictures, rants and conspiracy theories, and decide which need to be removed. So she takes a job working for a social media platform whose name she isn't allowed to mention. To be a content moderator is to see humanity at its worst-but Kayleigh needs money. ![]()
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Kate raworth donut economics6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1602, in a house on a narrow alley, a merchant began selling shares in the nascent Dutch East India Company. By some accounts, that system, capitalism, has its origins just a mile from the grocery store. The so-called true-price initiative, operating in the store since late 2020, is one of dozens of schemes that Amsterdammers have introduced in recent months as they reassess the impact of the existing economic system. “There are all these extra costs to our daily life that normally no one would pay for, or even be aware of,” she says. The label by the zucchini said they cost a little more than normal: 6¢ extra per kilo for their carbon footprint, 5¢ for the toll the farming takes on the land, and 4¢ to fairly pay workers. ![]() One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam. ![]() |