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February 12, 2020

Book Recommendation: Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Author: Max Tegmark The Big Questions Artificial Intelligence is one of those buzzwords that, like gene editing, will define the future of humanity. Given the awe-inspiring power that this booming technology has, it frightens people: academics, inventors, investors, and the public alike. Why is it so frightening? How powerful is it right now? How powerful will it become in the...
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February 5, 2020

Book Recommendation: Elon Musk – Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Author: Ashlee Vance Who is Elon Musk? Practically everyone knows of Elon Musk. He’s the eccentric billionaire co-founder and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Solar City. He’s sold multiple companies during his career, netting and investing tens of millions of his own money into his ventures and incurring insane risk. Elon is currently revolutionizing the transportation industry by popularizing electric...
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May 29, 2019

Book Recommendation: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman is a professor of psychology emeritus at Princeton University and won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics. In this masterpiece, Kahneman condenses some 40 years of his groundbreaking research in the field of behavioral psychology and makes it understandable to the nonspecialist. It is dense but informative and entertaining throughout. His prose is very engaging because he recounts...
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