King Tales – A chilling tour through Bangor, Maine
vishwanath As a massive fan who’s voraciously consumed every Stephen King/Richard Bachman novel written to date, our Maine trip became a nostalgic pilgrimage into the very essence of King’s literary universe.…
Thrills of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
With ‘The Last of Us‘ becoming everyone’s favorite live-action adaptation of a video game franchise, I fondly remember playing the game years ago along with related apocalyptic/zombie favorites like Resident…
Book Review – Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn
by Sebastian Raschka & Vahid Mirjalili I primarily wanted to read this book due to the Pytorch section and pretty much flipped through the Scikit learn section while absorbing and…
Prisoners of Geography – Book Review
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall is an enjoyable read that traces the worlds geography and its impact on today's geopolitics. I…
2020 in Books
I usually set reading goals at the beginning of the year to counter the array of distractions that have dented my reading habit over the last few decades. goodreads is…
Seven years
Seven years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer The author along with his friend, the resourceful Peter Aufschnaiter, takes you on a journey of 1000s of miles over hostile territories at…
Peak
A great book, well-worth sharing, that I recently read is Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericcson and Robert Pool. What does it take to become…