If you find any other inconsistencies, feel free to remind yourself this is a work of fiction.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
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If you find any other inconsistencies, feel free to remind yourself this is a work of fiction.
— Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Not a bad read at all! Not just a "kids these days" whinefest (though it can veer into that territory), actually has some smart things to say about the ways the Internet makes our lives better, and the new problems it creates for us. Do check this one out if you're curious. I didn't end up finishing it though -- not because I feel I've seen everything it has to say, but simply because I feel my reading time is better spent elsewhere.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …
Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. (Neil Gaiman)
— 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul (Page 57)
You have to turn off the input to generate output. But the input never stops
— 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul (Page 14)
Nah, got through the third chapter and really got the vibe that nothing in here was really going to rock my world. Kinda standard white anglo-saxon protestant inspirational stuff. Some good wisdom in the first two chapters but then very quickly drops off in substance. Definitely have some interest in these principles, but I don't think this book will really provide me with much meat to chew on. Moving on