Reading books of various genres, mostly Nordic Crime, Information Technology, Science and Fiction, Science and whatever I happen to find. I like to read mostly from paper, either pocket or hard cover, but also occasionally finish reading an e-book. I read books in Swedish, Finnish, English and German depending on what is available.
My reading history is available over at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/76763164-anders
I work as a Technical Architect in a large Information Technology corporation and live in Turku, Finland.
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91% complete! Anders has read 11 of 12 books.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
This short book is a non violent and non confrontational story that is dramatically different to normal science and fiction. The story is still captivating.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
Not the easiest book to read, but makes complicated concepts possible to understand, after rereading the more difficult sections a couple of times.
The book require some concentration, so not something that I would recommend for everyone, but if you are sufficiently interested in knowing the mathematics behind our everyday physics I can recommend it.
Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped …
Entertaining at some level, but perhaps not my kind of story. Even so, over all impressive world building that I think deserves four stars.
This was a tough book to read on what I thought would be an interesting subject when I bought the book.
The book discuss subjects like paradoxes, mathematics and computation and their intersection with philosophy and outlines the borders where the known ends and uncertainty takes over.
As such it is a book I would recommend to anyone in science, as well as anyone in technology, especially in over hyped areas like artificial intelligence.
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …
I do not read all that much fantasy, and I did not expect all that much, but this book provided a surprisingly pleasant reading experience.
Breaking free of old habits, friendship, opportunities and coffee are things most of us can relate to. Hence I would recommend this book to everybody, with a good cup of coffee on the side. I might even read this book again.
Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine …
This book presents an impressive investigation and analysis of the world of compliance focusing on privacy. While the book is about privacy you can extrapolate the problems it presents to other areas like diversity, security and equality. The appendix presents the multifaceted methodology and the challenges investigation this field has. The book has extensive notes that provides additional reading for those interested.
As for the results with the quite depressing conclusion the book paints a picture where people are hired as compliance agents to do a job that the company does not appreciate and interacts with people who would rather be left alone. For corporations presenting the image of caring about privacy seems to be sufficient. It also explains why the world of privacy in corporations is as bad as it seems with extractive practices running wild.
The book is somewhat similar to books like Sidney Dekkers Compliance capitalism and …
This book presents an impressive investigation and analysis of the world of compliance focusing on privacy. While the book is about privacy you can extrapolate the problems it presents to other areas like diversity, security and equality. The appendix presents the multifaceted methodology and the challenges investigation this field has. The book has extensive notes that provides additional reading for those interested.
As for the results with the quite depressing conclusion the book paints a picture where people are hired as compliance agents to do a job that the company does not appreciate and interacts with people who would rather be left alone. For corporations presenting the image of caring about privacy seems to be sufficient. It also explains why the world of privacy in corporations is as bad as it seems with extractive practices running wild.
The book is somewhat similar to books like Sidney Dekkers Compliance capitalism and Mats Alvessons Stupidity paradox, but goes even further and presents a set of solutions (in a very short chapter) that society could adopt to make the compliance work effective.
The book should be on the reading list of every decision maker and higher manager as well as for those setting policies or educating people and especially educating future leaders.
We are living a unique moment: internet technologies are the default infrastructure for society, not …
This is a wide ranging collection of essays about the internet. The essays highlight various aspects of political power and social structure that shape internet today.
It is a short book, well worth reading for anyone, specially those who wish to understand internet culture of today.
This was a work related book, not very long, not too out of date and not all that interesting in the end. There are lots to learn in this book, even for the experienced Java developer, but as that is just a very minor part of what I do for work and not all that practical at the moment. I would recommend this more like a reference book for developers, to read once and refer back to later when you need to code and write tests.
As a side note I read this book on my phone, with a small screen and in EPUB format. The normal text was readable but the code sections given as examples was quite unreadable and difficult to make sense of. You would hope that the EPUB format and layout would improve to better handle code samples and images. But I used what I had …
This was a work related book, not very long, not too out of date and not all that interesting in the end. There are lots to learn in this book, even for the experienced Java developer, but as that is just a very minor part of what I do for work and not all that practical at the moment. I would recommend this more like a reference book for developers, to read once and refer back to later when you need to code and write tests.
As a side note I read this book on my phone, with a small screen and in EPUB format. The normal text was readable but the code sections given as examples was quite unreadable and difficult to make sense of. You would hope that the EPUB format and layout would improve to better handle code samples and images. But I used what I had available.
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the …
A fantasy book that somehow deals with subjects that are not all that far out there at all in a way that makes imagination flow. Quite dark and macabre, but surprisingly funny and full of compassion. Could be triggering, but still a great book.
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally …
The book argues that science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. …
We are constantly bombarded with claims on how artificial intelligence, big data and other advances in technology and science is going to improve our everyday life. These claims oversell and underdeliver the actual capabilities. This book explain the mechanisms at work and attempts to provide actionable advice on how to to improve. One example of the advice provided is to improve education around the known pitfalls of our current technology. An other example and perhaps the most useful advice is stated in the title: Distrust!
The book goes from one topic to the next a bit without any clear direction. I would still recommend this book to everybody in technology, especially if you are in to artificial intelligence, big data or blockchain technology.
The book argues that science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. The book contains a large …
