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Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut, Christian Rummel

10% read

Wild how much this concept is resonating with me as a former Software Engineer now Professional Prompter. Very prescient.

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    My contribution to the red rising discourse is as follows: - red rising is a 7.5 - golden son is a 9.5 - morning star is a 9 They will be extremely hard to adapt into movies or tv without watering them down so I'm optimistic but keeping expectations low.

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    It's wild to me that real-estate agents are allowed to run for positions in the city they operate in and actively make real estate deals while in office.

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    Models usually write way more code than needed for an elegant solution still. This makes perfect sense considering more output tokens = more revenue for the labs.

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Dark Age

by Pierce Brown

3% read

I've been putting this off forever. Seems like a slow start so I will probably keep putting it off unfortunately.

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Dark Matter

by Blake Crouch

100% read 8/10 rating

Fantastic concept! It's not often I get so "addicted" to a book. Read it in around a day. The worst part by far was the ending which seems to be a trend with Blake Crouch's books in my experience. Recursion being the only exception I guess.

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A Parade of Horribles

by Matt Dinniman

100% read 6.5/10 rating

Another fun read in the DCC series. A slow burn as far as this series goes, and I'm starting to find the pace / themes a bit dragging at this point. The twist at the end is very fun, so I'm hopeful the next book in the series takes advantage of the opportunity

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Acing the System Design Interview

by Zhiyong Tan

100% read 8/10 rating

outside of interview prep, this book does provide a lot of good distributed computing fundamentals and provides lots of opportunities to go dig deep on a specific topic. I've enjoyed skimming through it! I can't say I've learned a huge amount but that probably has more to do with my experience than the book! If you havent done much system design / distributed / async work in practice ymmv and this is probably a great resource for you to kick off from.

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