Readit NewsBlindsight, Peter Watts [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)]. Avaliable free in a number of formats from his website: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
scottdw commented on The promise of AI in audio processing towardsdatascience.com/th... · Posted by u/scottdw
Third and final article doesn't appear to be linked from the others but is online. https://towardsdatascience.com/human-like-machine-hearing-wi...
Accompanying article: https://www.theverge.com/science/2019/2/19/18225564/animal-r...
ScienceDaily article with link to original paper: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107142221.h...
And github repo: https://github.com/DrCoffey/DeepSqueak/
This year, I discovered Agatha Christie. A few years back, when I was temporarily advised bed rest for a month, my sis loaned me a collection of Hercule Poirot short stories.
I was always a Sherlock Holmes fan and really enjoyed the logical detective work. Hercule Poirot felt like just like a pretentious quirky old man, making denouements based on evidence that is flimsy and tenuous at best.
This year, I came across the novels, and boy are they different! The novels give more space for characters to develop and for us to observe the proceedings and deduce clues. Each book felt more like a Whodunit game wrought as a novel. I tried to play detective as the story proceeded. Often the ending was radically different from what I expected, a few were a letdown and a bit lacking in proper evidence. But always, there are entertaining and I had so much fun and I was even right once or twice.
Of course they were written a long time back, but I am happy to discover them now.
If HN community can give me point to even better literature in the same vein, it would be heaven!
Maybe not "better literature" but I always look forward to a new Rebus novel by Ian Rankin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Rebus).
Though, the best (IMHO) whodunnit of 2018 is Stuart Turton's "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36337550-the-7-deaths-of...)
As far as I understand, his central (layman-level) proposition, is that time is just an emergent property when you consider that entropy always increases.
Fascinating stuff.