[New post] Third Quarter Roundup

robertmcgrath posted: " Happy October, almost. The blog rolls on! Just because nobody reads it doesn't mean I will stop posting. Robots! Dinosaurs! The Cryosphere! El Salvador—The Bitcoin project! Band names It was a great quarter for the Dave Barry Tribute Great" Robert McGrath's Blog Third Quarter Roundup robertmcgrath Sep 30 Happy October, almost. The blog rolls on! Just because nobody reads it doesn't mean I will stop posting. Robots! Dinosaurs! The Cryosphere! El Salvador—The Bitcoin project! Band names It was a great quarter for the Dave Barry Tribute Great Names For A Band.  All of these phrases are torn from real science and technical papers! Fluidic innervation Sensorize Ultrafast Energy exchange Two single Rydbergs Timescale A jumping reaction wheel unicycle Non-holonomic Under-actuated dynamics, Two unstable degrees of freedom Self-erection Disturbance rejection While balancing Entanglement purification Doubling architecture Quantum memories Entanglement fidelities Brain slosh reductions (Or a cocktail?) Contactless Fabrication Full Acoustic Trapping Elongated Parts Speculative Side-channel Attack A Forward Speculative Interference Attack Reorder Buffer Contention Speculation-invariant instructions Delay-on-miss Books As always, I read and briefly reviewed books every week. This quarter I mentioned 15 fiction and 4 non-fiction. Mostly newly published books. This summer I read most of the rest of Mick Herron's Slough House, four of the novels are in the list, another two will be reviewed in coming days. Fiction Total by Rebecca Miller Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah NSFW by Isabel Kaplan The Pink Hotel by Liska Jacobs The Longcut by Emily Hall An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Absolute by Daniel Duebel The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry Slow Horses by Mick Herron Spook Street by Mick Herron Real Tigers by Mick Herron Dead Lions by Mick Herron Non-Fiction The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández A Quantum Life by Hakeem Oluseyi The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Robert McGrath's Blog. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/third-quarter-roundup/ Powered by WordPress.com