Anil Jacob
agjacob.bsky.social
Anil Jacob
@agjacob.bsky.social
Bibliophile. Aspiring writer. Public health policy work (tobacco control, operational research, digital health). Knopfler,Rachmaninov, Tolkien, Grisham, freshly brewed coffee and a good discussion. South India. New to BlueSky.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Financially sensible for one party but unwise on many fronts for the rest of us.
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:03 AM
D. The decades-long framing gives a panoramic feel to the whole plot from the start.
It does come together in the end, and some may say, too late at the end, but it is consistent in pacing and even a good story by Grisham has to come to an end.
December 2, 2024 at 9:45 AM
C. The section on the Bataan death March is well researched yet humane and explains the back story that does come together a lot later.
December 2, 2024 at 9:44 AM
B. The characters are more well developed in the whole
December 2, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I recently finished John Grisham's "The Reckoning". It's a more "mature" kind of thriller compared to what readers may have had in mind. But... It's still a solid piece of writing because:
A. The plot construction is antithetical to common sense.
December 2, 2024 at 9:39 AM
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Heartening but also sobering.
Russian deserter reveals war secrets of guarding nuclear base
A combat alert was in place on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, he tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:14 AM
November 25, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Hello everyone, As most of you are bibliophiles,please share your top 20 recommendations for must-have reference books. This request is for my children ( 4 and 7) to encourage them to read widely and deeply, with a slight bias towards STEM fields but not discouraging the fine arts.
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November 16, 2024 at 4:53 AM
November 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM