Review of 'The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper' on 'Goodreads'
It was nice reading only about agent Cooper. This autobiography certainly helps getting closer to the character.
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ormai@bookwyrm.social reviewed Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright (c) Yuval Noah Harari 2011 ISBN 9780099590088 (isbn 978-0-09-959008-8)
Review of 'Sapiens' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This books tries to talk about everything but ends up talking about nothing.
It takes the sweetest bits, the sensational bits, from the most popular disciplines, smash them together to make a very provocative and fascinating book. Going through chapter after chapter felt like brainlessly scrolling through TikTok style videos, the obnoxious particular kind that start with the phrase "Did you knogw that...".
I think that Harari wanted to be impersonal while expounding his favourite scientific facts, nonetheless I found him to be tendentious and biased, even if only in a small number of occasions, particularly when adding to the fact.
Review of 'ARM 64-Bit Assembly Language' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
It is a good book. Other than assembly it explains computer architecture, touches Linux and explains conventions about programming and standards about encoding. There are lots of examples. Often the assembly implementation of a program goes in parallel with a C implementation of it. In explaining each instruction it gives a description using pseudocode, which I found very clear.
The topic I found most interesting learning was structured programming, because it made assembly usable like any other language.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a book …
Review of 'A Brief History of Time' on 'Goodreads'
So... We are nothing more than a colony of ants living on a little rock, floating in an infinite and chaotic universe?
While reading this book I learned a lot of things I was ignoring. I am convinced that if more people had a good understanding of the topics in this book, our society would be different. I enjoyed reading A Brief History of Time, but I have to confess that I had a not so easy time going through some passages and concepts, even tough the book itself is very clear.
Beyond the cold landscape that Hawking depicts through the pages, there is a message about the nature of science. I appreciated how he states things explicitly, like when he states that there is no way of knowing for sure if a theory is correct. Hawking doesn't just spit facts about each topic, instead he reasons with the reader, …
So... We are nothing more than a colony of ants living on a little rock, floating in an infinite and chaotic universe?
While reading this book I learned a lot of things I was ignoring. I am convinced that if more people had a good understanding of the topics in this book, our society would be different. I enjoyed reading A Brief History of Time, but I have to confess that I had a not so easy time going through some passages and concepts, even tough the book itself is very clear.
Beyond the cold landscape that Hawking depicts through the pages, there is a message about the nature of science. I appreciated how he states things explicitly, like when he states that there is no way of knowing for sure if a theory is correct. Hawking doesn't just spit facts about each topic, instead he reasons with the reader, so that all the doubts are set forth.