Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computers. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Human Compatible

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 I took my one and only AI class from Stuart Russell, who wrote Human Compatible . Written in 2019, this book predated OpenAI's ChatGPT ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Review: Play Nice

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 Play Nice is Jason Schreier's corporate history of Blizzard Entertainment. Written in a breathless manner that befits its subject, the...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Review: Fire Max 11

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 Boen's Fire HD 10 wasn't getting much use so I traded it in for a Fire Max 11 . Over the years I've come to expect low performa...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Review: Logitech Pebble Keys 2 K380s

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 This year I left my laptop at home, relying on the Pebble Keys 2 K380s and my smartphone to write up parts of the trip report on my way ho...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Review: A Brief History of Intelligence

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 A Brief History of Intelligence is a surprisingly good book, given that its title purported to also be about AI. Rather than being even a ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Review: Pixel 8 Pro

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 Arturo and Pengtoh have long shifted over to using smartphones for their travel photography, and I've been the last holdout. What caugh...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

Review: Steam Deck OLED

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 My brothers bought me a Steam Deck OLED as a birthday present.  I remember playing the heck out of the PS Vita back when I bought one, and...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Review: Garmin Edge 840

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 The Pro's Closet had open box Edge 840 for under $300 before Black Friday, and at that price it was too good to resist. The big featur...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Review: Marvel's Midnight Suns

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Marvel's Midnight Suns is Firaxis' turn based card game set in the Marvel Universe. I usually enjoy Firaxis's strategy games, a...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Review: Life is Strange - True Colors

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 I kept intending to play Life is Strange: True Color s, but what tipped me over was seeing it at the library and checking it out. It took m...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Review: Amazon Kindle Scribe

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 Eva was telling me that she really liked her Remarkable tablet. The price for that one was $400, but I saw that Amazon had a competitor, th...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Review: Pixel Buds Pro

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 My 3 year old Jabra Elite 65t active were finally getting to the point where I would run out of battery during a normal workday. I thought ...
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Thursday, March 02, 2023

Review: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow showed up on many "Books of the Year" lists. I checked it out of the library with suspicion,...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Review: 2 USB current measuring devices

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 When you buy a charger or power bank, it usually brags about how much power it supplies. But how do you verify that it actually provides th...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Review: Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen

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 Of all my Alex-enabled devices the Fire TV Cube is the one that consistently gets the most used. It was a bit slow, however, and never supp...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Review: Pixel Stand 2

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 I've had a few friends buy the Pixel 6a over the holidays using my Superfans code, which grants both them and I a $100 coupon from the ...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Review: Gran Turismo 7

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 I didn't set out to play Gran Turismo 7 . What happened was that I found a good deal on a Thrustmaster T150 for $100. Since I had a co...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

Review: The Cuckoo's Egg

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 I first read The Cuckoo's Egg way back in the 1990s, and recently someone referred to it and I figured why not read it again --- it...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Review: Driven - The Race to Create the Autonomous Car

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  Driven is an account of the rise of the autonomous vehicle industry. It traces the rise of the industry from the initial DARPA Grand Chall...
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Thursday, May 05, 2022

Review: A World Without Email

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 I wasn't very impressed by Deep Work , so I skipped a few Cal Newport books but checked out A World Without Email when I heard his inte...