Last week, two protoplanets in another star system were directly imaged. That seems like a good excuse to talk about planetary formation.
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Review: the Dark Tower
Almost twenty years ago, I picked up a copy of Legends, which opened with ‘the Little Sisters of Eluria’ by Stephen King, set in the Dark Tower universe. Intrigued, I proceeded to buy the first novel of the Dark Tower series. This is not a review of that novel series however.
Last week I saw the 2017 movie based on the Dark Tower novels, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. A great story with two great actors, and produced by Ron Howard (Willow, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind). That has to be good, right?
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Last year I wrote about the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. To summarize: I hated it with a vengeance. Then season two hit Netflix.
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I’m working my way through the Hugo finalists of this year, and I just finished ‘Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach’ by Kelly Robson from that list.
Continue reading “Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach”The Chinese Room
This is not a post about the Chinese version of ‘the Panic Room’. This is a post about artificial intelligence and the different types of AI out there.
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