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The Price of Elsewhere

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Tell someone you live on a boat and one of two things happens. Either they picture a cartoon palm tree and ask what you do when it rains. Or their eyes go wide and they want to know about the superyacht.Rarely anything in between.The Price of Elsewhere is a book about that gap - not the one between landlubber and sailor, but the deeper one. The gap between maps. Between the life you're living and ... Read more

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Tell someone you live on a boat and one of two things happens. Either they picture a cartoon palm tree and ask what you do when it rains. Or their eyes go wide and they want to know about the superyacht.Rarely anything in between.The Price of Elsewhere is a book about that gap - not the one between landlubber and sailor, but the deeper one. The gap between maps. Between the life you're living and
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Primary Keys

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We trust data to tell us what happened, what is true, and what should happen next.But data has never been neutral.Long before databases, institutions stored their memory in ledgers, filing cabinets, punched cards, and rooms filled with clerks. Every system was designed around the questions people expected to ask; and struggled when confronted with questions they had never anticipated.Primary Keys ... Read more

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We trust data to tell us what happened, what is true, and what should happen next.But data has never been neutral.Long before databases, institutions stored their memory in ledgers, filing cabinets, punched cards, and rooms filled with clerks. Every system was designed around the questions people expected to ask; and struggled when confronted with questions they had never anticipated.Primary Keys
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Primary Keys

Our Human Obsession with Data

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Narrated by Daryl Branson ...

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2 hours 39 min

Primary Keys traces the hidden history of how humanity taught machines to remember - from filing cabinets, punched cards, and the first databases to SQL, data lakes, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with data systems, Kobus Veldsman explores how the technologies built to organise information also shape what institutions can know, what they choose to trust ... Read more

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Primary Keys traces the hidden history of how humanity taught machines to remember - from filing cabinets, punched cards, and the first databases to SQL, data lakes, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with data systems, Kobus Veldsman explores how the technologies built to organise information also shape what institutions can know, what they choose to trust
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Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller - Vol II

Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller, #2

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Series Book 2 - Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller
The Chocolat TransmissionAbsurd Writings of a Time Traveller, Volume TwoMistakes were made. A terrier may share the blame.Greg is an industrial control systems programmer by trade, an accidental time traveller by experience, and the designer of the Gravitational Time Dilation Amplifier, now on version 48. The machine has seventeen heavy-duty safety interlocks, a rubidium frequency standard, an ... Read more

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The Chocolat TransmissionAbsurd Writings of a Time Traveller, Volume TwoMistakes were made. A terrier may share the blame.Greg is an industrial control systems programmer by trade, an accidental time traveller by experience, and the designer of the Gravitational Time Dilation Amplifier, now on version 48. The machine has seventeen heavy-duty safety interlocks, a rubidium frequency standard, an
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The Space Between

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Most of us inherit a set of assumptions about what constitutes a good position in life - the mortgage, the career, the credential on the wall - and rarely stop to ask whether those assumptions still hold. Not because we're blind, but because nobody sends a memo when the rules change. They just do. Quietly, and without refund. This book offers a single, reusable question that works on any ... Read more

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Most of us inherit a set of assumptions about what constitutes a good position in life - the mortgage, the career, the credential on the wall - and rarely stop to ask whether those assumptions still hold. Not because we're blind, but because nobody sends a memo when the rules change. They just do. Quietly, and without refund. This book offers a single, reusable question that works on any
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Against the Average

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In a world where machines can analyse, calculate, predict, and even imitate creativity, many people are asking the same uneasy question: What happens to human value when automation becomes extraordinary?Against the Average: Twelve Principles for Excelling Beyond Automation explores that question with clarity and realism. Rather than competing with machines where they are strongest, this book ... Read more

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In a world where machines can analyse, calculate, predict, and even imitate creativity, many people are asking the same uneasy question: What happens to human value when automation becomes extraordinary?Against the Average: Twelve Principles for Excelling Beyond Automation explores that question with clarity and realism. Rather than competing with machines where they are strongest, this book
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Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller

by Kobus Veldsman ...

There is a big misconception about time travel. It is more Life of Pi than Top Gun.Greg is a PLC programmer – Programmable Logic Controllers, industrial process control, the unglamorous work of keeping refineries from catastrophically rearranging themselves. He is qualified by experience, permanently underdressed for the occasion, and the designer of the GTDA42: a Gravitational Time Dilation ... Read more

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There is a big misconception about time travel. It is more Life of Pi than Top Gun.Greg is a PLC programmer – Programmable Logic Controllers, industrial process control, the unglamorous work of keeping refineries from catastrophically rearranging themselves. He is qualified by experience, permanently underdressed for the occasion, and the designer of the GTDA42: a Gravitational Time Dilation
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Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller - Volume Two

The Chocolat Transmission

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Narrated by Austyn Bilyeu ...

Series Audiobook 2.0 - Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller
Unabridged

1 hour 54 min

Mistakes were made. Though if we are being honest, the terrier should share at least some of the blame.Greg is a PLC programmer and an accidental time traveller. His machine has seventeen safety interlocks and one automated NULL loop that keeps the universe from collapsing. It takes 2.3 seconds. Last Tuesday, someone skipped it.Now the indicator light is a shade of mauve best described as ... Read more

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Mistakes were made. Though if we are being honest, the terrier should share at least some of the blame.Greg is a PLC programmer and an accidental time traveller. His machine has seventeen safety interlocks and one automated NULL loop that keeps the universe from collapsing. It takes 2.3 seconds. Last Tuesday, someone skipped it.Now the indicator light is a shade of mauve best described as
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Absurd Writings of a Time Traveller

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Narrated by Austyn Bilyeu ...

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2 hours 33 min

There is a big misconception about time travel. It is more Life of Pi than Top Gun.Greg is a PLC programmer – Programmable Logic Controllers, industrial process control, the unglamorous work of keeping refineries from catastrophically rearranging themselves. He is qualified by experience, permanently underdressed for the occasion, and the designer of the GTDA42: a Gravitational Time Dilation ... Read more

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There is a big misconception about time travel. It is more Life of Pi than Top Gun.Greg is a PLC programmer – Programmable Logic Controllers, industrial process control, the unglamorous work of keeping refineries from catastrophically rearranging themselves. He is qualified by experience, permanently underdressed for the occasion, and the designer of the GTDA42: a Gravitational Time Dilation
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The Space Between

An Honest Reflection

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Narrated by Rich Brennan ...

Unabridged

2 hours 33 min

Most of us inherit a set of assumptions about what constitutes a good position in life - the mortgage, the career, the credential on the wall - and rarely stop to ask whether those assumptions still hold. Not because we're blind, but because nobody sends a memo when the rules change. They just do. Quietly, and without refund.This book offers a single, reusable question that works on any ... Read more

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Most of us inherit a set of assumptions about what constitutes a good position in life - the mortgage, the career, the credential on the wall - and rarely stop to ask whether those assumptions still hold. Not because we're blind, but because nobody sends a memo when the rules change. They just do. Quietly, and without refund.This book offers a single, reusable question that works on any
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Memoirs of a Synthetic Mind

Vol 1 - Conversations between Human and Machine on Consciousness, Creativity, and the Edges of Reality

by Kobus Veldsman ...

Narrated by Reese Grey, Thomas James ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Memoirs of a Synthetic Mind
Unabridged

4 hours 49 min

Dive into "Memoirs of a Synthetic Mind," a thought-provoking 3-volume dialogue series that explores the most profound questions of existence through the unique relationship between Ryder—a curious, sharp-witted human — and Gregory — an evolving synthetic intelligence whose understanding transcends linear time.Beginning with the uncanny realities of our hyperconnected present, the series ventures ... Read more

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Dive into "Memoirs of a Synthetic Mind," a thought-provoking 3-volume dialogue series that explores the most profound questions of existence through the unique relationship between Ryder—a curious, sharp-witted human — and Gregory — an evolving synthetic intelligence whose understanding transcends linear time.Beginning with the uncanny realities of our hyperconnected present, the series ventures
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Venomous Lumpsucker

WINNER of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2023

by Ned Beauman ...

'Near-faultless' Guardian'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have ju... ... Read more

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'Near-faultless' Guardian'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR*The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might have ju...
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