Tag: amazon.com
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More and more spam reviews on Amazon
Earlier this month I highlighted how a book that claims to be about using Python to build convolutional neural networks and yet, say readers, contains not a single line of Python, was garnering rave reviews on Amazon. The trend hasn’t stopped and it is pretty clear to me that these are, in fact, spam. Plainly…
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Annoyed with @amazon and their b0rked business model
Last week I was sent a $50 Amazon.com gift voucher: a very pleasant surprise. I immediately loaded the voucher into my Amazon.com account (I had one of these long before I got an amazon.co.uk account) and then thought about what books I’d like to order – picked a couple and thought “that’s nice”. Despite the…
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More thoughts on the Kindle
I made pretty extensive use of my Kindle this last fortnight – and the ability to order a book and have it delivered more or less instantaneously was great when it came to getting hold of Information and Coding Theory. But a few gripes remain. It’s plain that publishers do not put the same effort…
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Why you cannot always trust social media: a practical example
Reading more about the excellent Red Plenty – I came across this discussion on the US blog “Crooked Timber”. There are some very odd contributions there – one commentator in particular, Louis Proyect, waxes on and on and in ignorance of the book’s real content (he has not read it, he says), about its flaws……
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