This is one of the two best-reviewed books of the year. As for the other, “Transcription”…forget about it. Now “London Falling” is nonfiction whereas “Transcription” is fiction, and I vastly prefer fiction, but… There was an interesting article in the “Wall Street Journal”… “Dad Books Are a Dying Breed – Sales have been sliding for […]

1 I live in California because of the Beach Boys. That may be hard to understand if you’re under the age of 40, as there has been a multi-decade campaign to vilify the state. But if you grew up in the sixties, California was a dream. The bleeding edge was on the west coast of […]

What kind of crazy, f*cked up world do we live in where we get a better description of, understanding of, delineation of, modern society, from Covid to Trump, in a book as opposed to any other entertainment medium, even the news! Now at this point Elizabeth Strout is mostly known for “Olive Kitteridge,” an award-winning […]

They should probably change the name. Most people believe AI actually thinks, akin to a human being. It does not, and if it ever will…that ability is years off according to the experts. No, what AI does is send out queries and assembles an answer from what comes back. So, when you hear about training… […]