Wednesday, January 18, 2023

books I am reading in 2023

BOOKS and some articles 2023:

Arthur, W. Brian. The Nature of Technology: What is is and How it Evolves (2009)
Deutsch, David. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World (2011)
Ives, Rob. Build It! Make It! Become a Super Engineer (2020)
Kurti, Peter & Mundine, Warren (editors). Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament (2022)
Marcus, Gary & Davis, Ernest. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence we can Trust (2019)
Maas, Pauline & Heldens, Peter. The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit.(2023)
McWhorter, John. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Betrayed Black America (2021)
Mitchell, Melanie. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (2020)
Schmidhuber, Juergen. Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning (2022)
Smil, Vaclav. How the World Really Works: The Science Behind how we got here and Where We're Going (2022)
Shellenberger, Michael. SanFransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities (2021)
Swaroop. A Byte of Python (online)
Tooley, James. The Beautiful Tree: a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves (2009)
Topol, Eric. Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (2019)
Wakelam, Darrell. ArtJumpStart (2023)
Widdowson, Frances. Fired for Asking Questions (2022)

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2 comments:

Patrick Muldowney said...

Just saw this and thought you may not have https://lawrencekrauss.substack.com/p/frances-widdowson-fired-for-asking?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=745084&post_id=81747478&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Bill Kerr said...

Thanks Pat, I added it to my list. I think there is an indigenous descriptive science - strong awareness of plants and how to treat them to make them edible etc. - but it's only a small fraction of what we have discovered through the Enlightenment. Galileo was persecuted for questioning religious dogma and now 400 years later Frances is persecuted for questioning a new religious dogma, that we must tiptoe around the sensibilities of minorities. Halfway through reading McWhorter's book, see the list. He calls them The Elect. I'm forming a new organisation, OWM (Old White Men), could you give me a hand designing the flag?