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Jim Redding
@jimredding.bsky.social
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Really feel like I should probably update my profile since I put one in Twitter and never looked back, but I'm afraid this is all you're going to get.

📍 Boston, MA
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Happy to be able to be @plante.bsky.social's first review over on @pocketcasts.com. First of many!
A screenshot of Pocket Casts, featuring the Post Games feed and 1 five star review.
May 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Final Book!! Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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19/20

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A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
December 17, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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19/20

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The Gunslinger by Stephen King; The Dark Tower 1
December 17, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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18/20

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The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan; Percy Jackson & The Olympians Book Five
December 15, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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17/20

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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
December 14, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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16/20

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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
December 14, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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15/20

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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
December 12, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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15/20

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Redwall by Brian Jacques
December 11, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Annnnnd we're caught back up! Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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14/20

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
December 10, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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13/20

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Recursion by Blake Crouch
December 10, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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12/20

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Eragon by Christopher Paolini
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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11/20

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The Martian by Andy Weir
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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10/20

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
December 10, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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This paragraph got me
Last year, Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robotics at Imperial College London and a senior scientist at DeepMind, published a paper cautioning against the use of mental terms like “think” and “believe” by his peers. These systems can generate language that seems astonishingly human, Shanahan wrote, but the fundamentally alien process they use to do so has important implications for how we should understand their words. To use Shanahan’s example, when you ask a person, “What country is to the south of Rwanda?” and they answer “Burundi,” they are communicating a fact they believe to be true about the external world. When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.
December 5, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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9/20

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
December 5, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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8/20

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
December 4, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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7/20

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Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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6/20

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
December 2, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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5/20

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This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
December 1, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Whoops! Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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4/20

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#bookchallenge
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
December 1, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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3/20

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The Magicians by Lev Grossman
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Almost forgot because of Turkey Day! Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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2/20

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The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis; The Chronicles of Narnia
November 29, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Following @rtinman13.bsky.social's lead, and getting in on this.

Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you or stayed with you.
One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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1/20
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Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child; A Jack Reacher Novel
November 27, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Incredibly jealous of these youths. No better rush for a bookish 6-10 year old.
September 19, 2023 at 8:01 PM