Kara Swisher – Burn book
Entertaining rather than enriching, with strong emphasis on the ways in which Kara lets other people know that she is right
Kara Swisher – Burn book
Entertaining rather than enriching, with strong emphasis on the ways in which Kara lets other people know that she is right
Robert Greene – The 48 laws of power
A pile of cynical, often conflicting, recommendations presented with Machiavellian panache.
A smart repackaging of Khanemean for marketeers that is indeed worth a second edition nine years after initial publication
Rhetorically strong, with well chosen observations spun into a seductive narrative that is designed to give hope.
Janara Nerenberg – Divergent mind
Does a great job explaining the negative impact.
The case that “data trumps opinions, provided your corporate culture doesn’t get in the way” contains little original thinking, but that – to be fair – is not the author’s objective
The author’s hard-felt frustration that the crypto market could (and in a sense still can) stay irrational as long as it did makes the story even more juicy.
Harry Percival – Test Driven Development with Python
It take quite some wasted hours of coding to appreciate the full power of the TDD approach
Michael Lewis – Going infinite
Amazing story, told with a consistent yet not so surprising perspective
Bjorn Lomborg – Best things first
Nice exercise that provides some nice contrarian thinking, as long as one is aware that the methodology of cost-benefit analysis (as applied here) seems to ignore systemic risks (e.g. climate change) and under-plays the difficulty of getting from theory to policy (let alone realization).
The original recipe is in Dutch
My twist: add vanilla and orange zest to the dough.
Want to try: touch of cardamon
The story is, appears heavily romanticized, but provides a nice insider perspective on many quirks of Japanese culture.
From the amazing book The handmade loaf
My twist: add anise , cinnamon, and orange zest to the dough for an even richer flavour.
Benjamin Lorr – The secret life of groceries
Narrated with bravado, the book conjures the nostalgic image of a 1950s store and skillfully contrasts it with the current state of the industry.
An impressive book that takes tea sufficiently seriously, serving valuable recommendations on teas to try and pairings to explore.
Chris Wickham – Medieval Europe
Rich and fascinating deep-dive into an under-estimated millennium.
Even if multiple views are presented, Elon’s perspective gets most airtime and the final word; which makes the book read like a hagiography.
Reading like a writer – Francine Prose
Lot of examples of great prose, but too few examples of bad writing.
It’s always tricky… claiming to be comprehensive. In particular where it concerns LLMs.
And that;s where the paper Decoding Trust [..] stumbles. Right in the title is claims “A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT.” Nonetheless, when reading about this research on one of my favorite blogs, I decided to have a closer look.
The authors propose a framework with eight perspectives on trustworthiness:
They then continue to develop that into a benchmark for GPT models and present the empirical results on GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
Although the results are interesting, there are some concerns with this type of benchmark approach.
On the positive side, the paper brings a lot of inspiration for organizations for how they can shape their own testing approach for trustworthy GenAI. Even if not comprehensive, a framework like this as a starting point is massively useful and important.
The author set out on a daunting program with impressive results in a fascinating domain.