![]() ![]() When I walked out onto the street, the yellow of the sky had deepened. ![]() I took the J to Canal, where I transferred to the Q up to the Times Square stop. Especially since I didn’t know whether I was going to have it. I hadn’t meant to ghost, but it was just easier not to deal with it. He had texted, called, and emailed a bunch since then. ![]() We hadn’t seen each other in a month, the last time being when he had informed me he was moving out of New York. I needed to find a way to break the news. ![]() What if I texted back: I’m pregnant! It’s yrs lolz. I would know that I was alone.īefore the train tunneled underground, my phone buzzed in my tote bag, alight with another text from Jonathan: Leaving Sunday. I would estimate the time this theoretical setback would delay the production schedule, then the shipment schedule. I would calculate the cost of using Swiss Bible paper in place of the Chinese paper that the client insisted we buy, should the latter prove too flimsy to prevent ink from bleeding to the other side, the Psalms obscuring the Proverbs, Matthew contradicting Mark, Peter preempting John. Whenever I couldn’t sleep, I would torture myself by creating a completely hypothetical Bible production scenario to troubleshoot. I thought about the next day at the office, and the day after. I had laid on the cheap bed of my Bushwick studio, listening to the sound of my breath. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But through it all, she builds a chosen family who show up for one another in their flawed and perfectly human ways. For the lucky, this could be preceded by a period of freedom, the latitude of youth.” Over the course of her 20s, Sneha navigates all the changes this particular period of time brings, from her relationship with her parents to working through past trauma, understanding her role in corporate America, and economic (in)security.Īnd as early-20s-somethings are wont to do, Sneha explores dating and all the messiness it entails - and ends up in a dysfunctional relationship with her girlfriend. ![]() True adulthood, she explains, signifies “a bowing down before the inevitable. Early in Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel, All This Could Be Different, the book’s narrator, Sneha - a queer Indian immigrant fresh out of college in the 2010s, living in Milwaukee and working her first corporate job - muses on what it means to be an adult. ![]() ![]() While Channary is naturally beautiful, Levana needs a constant glamour to maintain her perfection. ![]() Neither girl is sad to see their parents go and they hate each other as well. Levana and Channary (teenage sisters) are getting ready to attend their parent’s funeral who were killed by an intruder. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happens in Fairest? Princess Selene – Channary’s daughter and princess Letumosis – deadly disease created by the late king and queen, completed by Queen Channary, spread by Levana Sir Evret Hayle – Royal guard and Levana’s crush Levana – Lunar princess, sister to the QueenĬhannary – Levana’s sister and queen of Luna But still…read it! Want to know what happened in Fairest? Read below for all the spoilers. ![]() This was a great (and essential) read for fans of the Lunar Chronicles but I can’t say that I loved it because I couldn’t connect with her character. There are moments when you feel sorry for her but when given a chance to redeem herself, she never does. It tells the story of Queen Levana: how she got where she is and how she became evil. Fairest is a prequel to the events in the Lunar Chronicles series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cabins would have to be my favourite feature of the camp, though. I could imagine everything vividly and I like to think that I know the camp from back to front. ![]() ![]() RR seriously out did himself with writing the camp. Well, it sure seemed better than the budget summer camps I've been to. I've always taken an interest in Greek Mythology and I thought Rick Riordan's take on it was very unique, and unlike anything I've read before. Because without his unfreakingbelieveable hotness, I wouldn't have watched the movie, and I would've never read the awesomeness of The Lightning Thief. What did I tell you? (I do imagine that you probably won't read the rest of the review anf just stare at this gif instead, but that's no reason not to like my review! :D)īut, I really have to thank Logan. But I'm even more ashamed that I watched the movie only to experience the hotness that is Logan Lerman.īut, come on! Someone tell me that this, is not hot: I'm slightly ashamed to say that I watched the movie before I read the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is based on numerous interviews with experts trying to build artificial intelligence systems, particular machine learning systems, that are aligned with human values. ![]() Urgent and fascinating, this is an accessible primer to the most important issue facing AI researchers today. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values is a 2020 non-fiction book by the American writer Brian Christian. If we stand by, we face a future with unregulated algorithms that propagate our biases - and worse - violate our most sacred values. From the AI program which cheats at computer games to the sexist algorithm behind Google Translate, bestselling author Brian Christian explains how, as AI develops, we rapidly approach a collision between artificial intelligence and ethics. This book deals with the alignment problem analyzed in different perspectives over time while scaling out its abstraction and complexity. This conundrum - dubbed 'The Alignment Problem' by experts - is the subject of this timely and important book. But as algorithms make ever more decisions on our behalf, how do we ensure they do what we want? And fairly? University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. ![]() The Alignment Problem: How Can Artificial Intelligence Learn Human Values? Brian Christian € 21.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.Īrtificial intelligence is rapidly dominating every aspect of our modern lives influencing the news we consume, whether we get a mortgage, and even which friends wish us happy birthday. ![]() ![]() Learned since, can be like ocean currents," Hohn writes poetically. Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (Viking, 370 pages, $27.95), goes far beyond a simple investigation into these questions. Set out to learn what the toys might have encountered on the high seasĪnd whether they actually made it to the Atlantic, but the resultingīook, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at SeaĪnd of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, ![]() Night-to put his investigative skills to work in a five-year wild duckĬhase, away from his wife and newborn son. It also sent Hohn-schoolteacher by day, investigative journalist by The image of inanimate yellow ducks bobbing cheerfully in the ocean inspired children's author Eric Carle ( The Very Hungry Caterpillar) to write 10 Little Rubber Ducks, and beachcombers in Newfoundland and England to search for weather-beaten bath toys that might have safely crossed the Arctic. Ship en route to the United States from China. Turtles-circumnavigating the globe after tumbling off of a container ![]() Of thousands of plastic bath toys-ducks, beavers, frogs and Night, when one of his students brought to his attention the existence ![]() Donovan Hohn was correcting high-school English papers one ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not a fan of manufactured drama, but I was disappointed that nothing really explosive happens. ![]() A lot of wonderful conflicts are set up, and I was looking forward to everything coming to a boil. I got sucked in by Mina’s hardships and Lev becoming her guardian angel. The plot is strong, and I found the first half really intriguing. After all, a person with nothing has nothing left to lose. A nice warm bed, a hot meal and a job, or the cops. She's tired, lonely and hasn't eaten in days. ![]() When Mina Harris gets caught red-handed with a wallet that isn't hers, she falls apart. Having been told his entire life that he can't process or understand emotion, he considers it a big deal. For the very first time in his life, he is affected. Published by Self-Published on October 10th 2015įrom the moment Lev Leokov spots the young woman hiding behind her hair in the middle of the gentleman's club, he can't take his eyes off of her. ![]() ![]() The Allegheny Brew House is a dream come true for Maxine Max O’Hara, who went all the way to Germany for her brewmaster certifi. ![]() Suspicious acts of sabotage culminate in Max finding her assistant brewmaster and chef Kurt Schmidt strangled in one of the vats.Between rescuing a stray gray tabby she names Hops and considering a handsome ex-hockey player as her new chef, Max doesn't have a lot of time to solve a murder. To Brew or Not to Brew Dec-2015 Book - 1 An all-new mystery series set in a Pittsburgh craft brew pub, featuring a brewmaster with a head for sleuthing. Brewing Trouble Mystery Novels 1) To Brew or Not to Brew, 2015 2) Tangled Up in Brew, 2016 3) A Room with a Brew, 2017 Homefront News Mystery Novels (as. But before she can start pouring stouts and lagers to thirsty throngs, there's trouble on tap. An all-new mystery series set in a Pittsburgh craft brew pub, featuring a brewmaster with a head for sleuthing.The Allegheny Brew House is a dream come true for Maxine Max O'Hara, who went all the way to Germany for her brewmaster certification, and is now preparing to open her own craft brew pub in a newly revitalized section of Pittsburgh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “A sophisticated epistemic position understands that research conducted by the disciplines is similar to the activity of the blind men trying to make sense of the elephant. Here’s another take on it from the book Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies: Our conscious experience of the outside world is one of the great mysteries of neuroscience: not only do we not have a theory to explain how private subjective experience emerges from a network of cells, we currently aren’t even certain what such a theory would look like.” - David Eagleman, Neuroscientist (2) ![]() Your reality is running entirely in a dark theater. From these signals it extracts patterns, assigns meaning to them, and creates your subjective experience of the outside world. Those signals are all it has to work with and nothing more. All it ever experiences are electrochemical signals coursing around through its massive jungle of neurons. ![]() Instead, your brain is locked in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull. Your brain is not directly experiencing any of that. “Consider that whole beautiful world around you, with all its colors and sounds and smells and textures. Our brain is literally blind-it lives in a vault of silence and darkness inside your skull: Our senses offer limited information (and even this isn’t reality itself). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, like the thousands of people all over the world trying to forge new lives far from home, Darling finds this new paradise brings its own set of challenges - for her and also for those she's left behind. ![]() They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live.įor Darling, that dream will come true. There's mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. A playground overflowing with mischief and games where they imagine countries a luxurious life away from theirs in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Home of 10-year-old Darling and her friends: four children on the edge of innocence. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in - who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart? Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. We need new names By NoViolet Bulawayo, in a new adaptation by Mufaro Makubika Directed by Monique Touko Paradise. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. ![]() Oliver is a handsome white lawyer with a dark family secret. His daughter, Tammy, grapples with the pressure of expectations. Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out. Paper Names by Susie Luo (May 2) This novel explores the American experience from three different perspectives: Tony has sacrificed much to give his family a better life in America. ![]() |