Daily Thoughts 10/13/2017

Scholar With His Books, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621-1674)

Daily Thoughts 10/13/2017

I checked the library Twitter and Facebook.

I read some more of Deep Thinking by Garry Kasparov.  I learned that the game of Go took much longer to crack than chess.  It was not until 2016, that a computer could beat a grandmaster of Go.  The programming also was more complex with neural nets and learning algorithms for Go.

I watched two more sessions of the Science of Mindfulness: A Research Based Path to Well Being on Hoopla.  Episode 11 Connecting With Children and Adolescents and Episode 12 Seeing Sadness and Depression in a New Light.

I checked the New York Times Bestseller list and the Publishers Weekly Bestseller list today.

I placed a hold on the book, Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi.  It is a young adult book.

I read the latest copy of the New York Times Book Review.

Web Bits

How Living In A Library Gave One Man 'The Thirst for Learning'

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/557328529/how-living-in-a-library-gave-one-man-the-thirst-of-learning

County Library Wins Honor for After Hours Computer Center

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/county-library-wins-honor-for-after-hours-computer-center/article_bd10b738-443e-56d9-bc13-908d1ede03bb.html

The Boston Public Library Owns 200,000 Vinyl Records-- and Its Putting Them All Online
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/10/11/boston-library-vinyl-records