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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 was initially reserved about the new group Steely Dan, but my interest was high after I heard them play live. Six people: keyboards, drums, bass, vocalist, second lead guitar and lead guitar who also doubled on steel and congas.
#2 The band was put together around the four of them. They added Denny Dias, the second guitar player, whom they'd worked with before,...
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#1 On June 19, 2005, Michael Jackson boarded a private jet with his three children and disappeared. Ten days later, he landed in the remote island kingdom of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, which would be his home for the next year.
#2 After the 2005 trial, Jackson left America and lived in Bahrain as a guest of Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, a friend of...
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Get the Summary of Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: So begins the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, taking us along on his journey from childhood ambition to fame to addiction and recovery in the aftermath of a life-threatening health scare. Before the frequent hospital visits and stints in rehab, there was five-year-old...
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#1 New York was the place where people could escape America and have their own semi-utopic ideal. It was a place where you could find complete artistic freedom.
#2 I was obsessed with Martin Scorsese by the time I was fourteen. I had the fantasy that he was my father and my boyfriend. I didn't have any money, but I had nowhere to stay. I slept on the streets of New York...
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Get the Summary of Ryan Hartwig & Kent Heckenlively's Behind the Mask of Facebook in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Hired by Cognizant as a content moderator for Facebook, Ryan Hartwig began by keeping gruesome images of cartel violence in Mexico off the platform. This seemed like a righteous mission and yet, as time went by, it became clear the Facebook bosses saw an even bigger threat,...
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Get the Summary of Jerry Oppenheimer's House of Hilton in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you want to know how Paris Hilton became who she is, you have to know where she came from. From scores of candid and exclusive interviews, from private documents and public records, New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer has dug deeply into her paternal and maternal family roots to...
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#1 The exchange of music between the Caribbean and New York City was dynamic at the time, and Trinidadian artists were recording in New York City. My mother's plans for me to study classical music and become a concert pianist began even before my parents and siblings left Trinidad to stay with her for a few years when I was eight.
#2 I was interested in how music worked...
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#1 The day I was born, I was tested to see if I was right about being special. I was not only barefoot but also had not changed out of my nightgown. The woman who came to take me home was so tall and regal that we all thought she was auditioning for the job.
#2 I was the youngest of the four siblings, and I was very shy. When I was introduced to Helen Gaspard, I tapped...
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#1 The zills are a pair of finger cymbals that are placed on the middle finger and thumb. They hold infinite possibilities, and they will come together, move apart, and come together again. They ring with an inexplicably deep familiarity for me.
#2 I feel certain about my husband, Prince. I believe he was my lover in a previous life, and I believe we were destined to...
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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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#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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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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#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 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 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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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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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...