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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 9186986" data-attributes="member: 16651">Just finished up The Black Hawks by David Wragg, and Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman. Both were good, and the latter covers a lot of Sam Bankman-Fried's activities so it was interesting to finish that up and then hear about his trial.Now I am about a third of the way into Michio Kaku's Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything and while he presents a few notions about quantum computing's potential impact that I had not considered, his writing is very repetitive. It feels like sections were separate, standalone postings at one point, as they emphasize and repeat points that were just made in the last 2 or 3 pages. I was also hoping that this would try to explain quantum computing in more detail than it does (it covers the core concept quite well in a broad, general way) but maybe that is beyond any general audience book.I will probably pick up David Wragg's sequel, The Righteous, next.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 9186986, member: 16651"] Just finished up [I]The Black Hawks[/I] by David Wragg, and [I]Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud[/I] by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman. Both were good, and the latter covers a lot of Sam Bankman-Fried's activities so it was interesting to finish that up and then hear about his trial. Now I am about a third of the way into Michio Kaku's [I]Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything[/I] and while he presents a few notions about quantum computing's potential impact that I had not considered, his writing is very repetitive. It feels like sections were separate, standalone postings at one point, as they emphasize and repeat points that were just made in the last 2 or 3 pages. I was also hoping that this would try to explain quantum computing in more detail than it does (it covers the core concept quite well in a broad, general way) but maybe that is beyond any general audience book. I will probably pick up David Wragg's sequel, [I]The Righteous[/I], next. [/QUOTE]

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