Review:Easy to connect to wi-fi and Bluetooth speaker. The built in speaker is good enough; but we connect it to a quality Bluetooth speaker, for music. The TP Link smart plug works well with this unit. Alexa can keep you up to date on news, sports and weather; plus answer all kinds of questions. She does alarms and timers.The connection to music is worth the $29.00 sale price. We have used it for over a week now, without a single problem or complaint. That is a relatively short time; but with electron... Read more

Review:Well-written book. Clear explanations of statistical concepts and methodologies. along with explanation of how to implement in R. Useful for someone with a medium understanding of statistics and aptitude for learning programming languages, to rapidly increase their knowledge and gain practice. Read more

Review:This little book is a wonderful compact introduction the methodology of analytical mechanics. While not new to me, I thoroughly enjoyed this review of the action principle, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of the equations of motion, symmetries and conservation laws, and Poisson brackets. For those who think these fancy techniques are superfluous, and all mechanical problems can be solved with F = ma, the authors suggest setting up the equations of motion for the double pendulum. Th... Read more

Review:This is an extremely difficult book to review. Though a layman in this field, fortunately, I have researched quantum mechanics and read enough books over the last few years on the subject to do a reasonably informed job of covering the salient points:
1) I have no doubt the author feels he has attempted to construct this book in a manner that can be understood fairly easily by many. Not to be insulting to anyone, but this book is definitely not for the novice.
2) Even with some backgroun... Read more

Review:The best book on quantum physics since Briane Greene's "Elegant Universe." A superb blend of cutting edge science, history, literature, and philosophy. A must read for anyone even remotely interested in the subject. Read more

Review:I wanted something gristly and meaty that would ideally focus on cutting edge physical research/developments and how they would directly impact the world. The kind of stuff you get exposed to on a daily basis if you read reddit and other aggregators. I hoped this would be supplemental and informative; having just trudged through the first section, that on computer developments, I am thoroughly underwhelmed. The dude is mealy mouthed and talks about the most broad vague trends in jaundiced termin... Read more

Review:Wow--what a great book! Muller's hypothesis about the flow of time is mind-blowing, and makes intuitive sense. Also, his explanation of quantum physics is by far the clearest I've read.
In addition, the author's provocative thoughts on science vs. spirituality are well worth reading. His attitude reminds me of many of the ancient Greek thinkers ("the fathers of Western science"): willing to engage reality in its fullness. Read more

Review:This book complement The War of Art. The author goes a bit more deep into Turning Pro philosophy.

If you want to understand what it takes to turn pro and remain pro this is one of the books you should read, as well as the War of Art. Read more

Review:It's hard to figure out who would actually benefit from this book - it amounts to seven hundred pages of equations interrupted by blocks of text that fail to provide any intuition whatever for the techniques they are describing, and the occasional graph which is remarkable in the universe of graphs as being scarcely more informative than the equations it is meant to illustrate.

Seriously, you have to wonder wtf Bishop thought he was doing here. As a catalog of equations for people who al... Read more

Review:...for anyone who likes both "Trek" and science. Laurence Krauss shows that it is possible to enjoy "Trek" while using it as a tool to teach some physics fundamentals (usually to the effect that "Trek" physics/technology is impossible or wildly improbable). The foreword is by Stephen Hawking, also a fan, who endorses the imagination-expanding possibilities of science fiction. Remember how many engineers were inspired by the example of the late "Scotty" (he was even given an honorary engineering ... Read more