Don't waste your time with this book. Cherry picked data. Speculative. Assumes correlation is causation.
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Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading The Misinformation Age by James Owen Weatherall
The Misinformation Age by James Owen Weatherall, Cailin O'Connor
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for …
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Darwin by Niles Eldredge
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading The molecule of more by Daniel Z. Lieberman
Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we …
Dr. Gary Ackerman reviewed The molecule of more by Daniel Z. Lieberman
Why are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we …
Wild conclusions
1 star
The author seems to have found a favorite explanation and assumes we will not recognize cherry-picking of data.
Dr. Gary Ackerman reviewed The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book …
A Must Read for Everyone
5 stars
It is difficult for a reasonable reader to finish this book without questioning what they "know" about testing and intelligence.
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book is both a history and …
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Clippers of the port of Portsmouth and the men who built them by Ray Brighton (Publication / Portsmouth Marine Society ;)
Clippers of the port of Portsmouth and the men who built them by Ray Brighton (Publication / Portsmouth Marine Society ;)
Dr. Gary Ackerman reviewed Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick, professeur à Wharton et auteur de la populaire newsletter One Useful Thing Substack, …
Co-Intelligence
4 stars
Mollick gives us a "helicopter view" of generative AI. Readers come away with an understanding of the technology behind ChatGPT and the other large language models. Educators will find this to be a particularly useful read as Mollick describes how AI can help folks to be more effective workers.
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick, professeur à Wharton et auteur de la populaire newsletter One Useful Thing Substack, nous livre le guide ultime …
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Brave New Words by Salman Khan
Brave New Words by Salman Khan
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and …
Dr. Gary Ackerman finished reading Self-Assembling Brain by Peter Robin Hiesinger
Dr. Gary Ackerman reviewed Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by the astrophysicist …