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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 I hated waking up. It was a struggle to face life, and I saw no way out other than through death. I had been battling depression for years, and I thought about suicide almost daily.
#2 I was extremely depressed, and I didn't know how to express my pain. I was afraid of what it would mean to lose my voice, but part of my depression was rooted in not knowing why my...
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#1 When you experience musical perfection, you are allowing a natural behavior of divine physics to play out through you. Perfection comes through you naturally, and you don't feel like the doer of it. It feels awesome, and you should strive to experience this instinctual perfection more and more as you make music.
#2 Your musical truth is defined by whether or not you...
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#1 My father, Floyd Delafield Crosby, was the son of Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby and Julia Floyd Delafield. He was born in 1899 in New York City. He served with honor in the second of two world wars that occurred in his lifetime.
#2 Floyd was 42 when I was born. He had already lived through events like the deadly influenza epidemic of 1917. In the 1920s, he went...
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#1 Manifesting is not just thinking something is going to happen, it is encompassing that reality with your entire being. It is standing on a hearth and believing you're on the stage of an arena. It is writing songs and feeling that what you write will reach the masses.
#2 I was in Atlanta with my best friend, Bugus, who was rapping. We needed to get on MTV, so we went...
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Get the Summary of Geoff Emerick, and Howard Massey's Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded...
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Get the Summary of Sesali Bowen's ‘Bad Fat Black Girl’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self-love.
Her love of trap music led her to the top of hip-hop...
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Get the Summary of Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A teen idol at 15, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at 20, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio, who was uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-'70s Malibu, where he embarked...
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Get the Summary of Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss's I Can't Make This Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir...
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#1 The Pleistocene Epoch, which began about 2. 6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago, marked profound changes in the history of the human race. People began to form into bands of hunters and foragers who lived nomadic lives in temporary camps.
#2 The first Native Americans, who were the first settlers in the Americas, were forced to go east or west...
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#1 I had a difficult time in school from the start. I was always a bad student, and I never learned how to knit. I was hit by the teacher whenever I did something wrong.
#2 I had a very fraught relationship with my stepfather, because I was an only child and he was a newly married man with two children from his previous marriage. I was constantly being bullied by his...
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#1 The pecking behavior of chicks is not an instinct, but rather a result of thousands of repetitions of the pecking action inside the egg. It is called circumstantial practice by researchers.
#2 The idea of natural talent is that you are either born with it or you aren't. However, practice is still the only way to get better at anything. If you want to get better, you...
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#1 I was born in 1942 in New York City. My name at birth was Carol Joan Klein. It would take me five decades to realize that my surname was Glayman, which means small in German. My parents met in an elevator at Brooklyn College in 1936, and my father was studying chemistry, my mother's majors were English and drama.
#2 I was born in Manhattan on February 9, 1942. My...
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#1 The creation of their fifth album stretched back to January 1969, when the duo went to Nashville to record one of Simon's new songs. The track incorporated a pedal steel guitar and a harmonica, and it was recorded at a chapel at Columbia University.
#2 The song, as it was first called, was no painless undertaking. It was understated and gentle, and Simon sang it as...
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#1 My father was a monk. He loved to tell stories about his decade with the church, and how he couldn't stand the fried chicken at the monastery. I always found the monastery intriguing, because I thought it was somewhere you went for kicks.
#2 My father's memoir describes a family split between prudent Prairie Home Companion types on one side and wild gumbo wastrels on the other....
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#1 Architecture and capitalism have always been linked, but the ascent of finance capitalism since 1980 has uniquely implicated architecture because built space is a preferred operating medium of finance.
#2 The FIRE economy is the term used to describe the economic ecology connecting landowners, banks, insurance companies, mortgage brokers, investment brokers, real...
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Get the Summary of Stormy Daniels's Full Disclosure in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump...
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#1 My father, Ralph Everett Dudley, was born in 1955. He went by a lot of aliases, including Gucci Mane, because his father, George Dudley, had always loved fancy clothes. He had spent time in Italy during his years in the military, and fell in love with the Gucci brand.
#2 My father, James Mane, was a hustler and an alley cat. He was always ahead of his time, and I...
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#1 I used to come out to Colorado to hike and explore, but in the year of the pandemic I mostly stayed close to home. I moved back to this part of Colorado as a single father with two kids, and I was excited to see some rock art.
#2 I would go to the petroglyphs every season, snow-swept and rippled in summer heat. I would take my joys and sadnesses to them, or talk about...
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Get the Summary of Mo Rocca's Mobituaries in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his number one hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries,...
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