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Tania J.

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Joined 5 months, 2 weeks ago

data science researcher, ex software deveveloper, pole dancer, bibliophile, interested in machine learning, comp neuroscience, sociology. I read a bit of (almost) everything. 🇸🇬🇦🇺🇩🇪

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32% complete! Tania J. has read 17 of 52 books.

The Dawn of Everything (Hardcover, 2021, Signal) 4 stars

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal …

all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous: the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud or Claude Lévi-Strauss being only particularly salient cases in point. One must simplify the world to discover something new about it. The problem comes when, long after the discovery has been made, people continue to simplify.

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The Luminaries (2013, Granta, Granta Books) 4 stars

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West …

Masterful

5 stars

The writing style captured me from the beginning, although it was sometimes (in the first few sections) a struggle to follow the rather complex plot with so many characters. I really appreciated all the authentic New Zealand (and especially Hokitika) references - wildlife, Maori language and culture, street names, etc. since I discovered and started reading this book in Hokitika itself. However, I think many clever astrological references were lost on me. Despite that I thoroughly enjoyed the book. This would be a great one to take apart in an English Lit. class.

Permanent Record (2020, Pan Macmillan) 4 stars

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass …

This book is boring me to tears. The writing style is pretty awkward and difficuly to read, especially when compared to some of the classics I've been reading lately. It may be quite informative for people who didn't grow up in the 90s or are not tech savvy, but in 100 pages I haven't found many new insights so I'm putting this one aside.

Permanent Record (2020, Pan Macmillan) 4 stars

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass …

Tech people rarely, if ever, have a sense of the broader applications and policy implications of the projects to which they are assigned. And the work that consumes them tend to require such specialized knowledge that to bring it up at a barbecue would get them disinvited from the next one. In retrospect, maybe that's what got us here.

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