In Cold Blood Summary of Key Points

In Cold Blood is an in-depth study of a real-life brutal murder of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959, authored by Truman Capote. Through this book, Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Richard ‘Dick’ Hickock and Perry Smith.

A Thousand Brains Summary of Key Points

In ‘A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence’, Jeff Hawkins, the co-inventor of the Palm Pilot and founder of Numenta, presents a new theory of how the brain understands the world. Hawkins argues that the brain uses a multitude of reference frames (thousands of ‘mini-columns’ in the neocortex) to model objects of perception. He suggests that intelligence is a product of these models working together and that this framework could lead to the development of truly intelligent machines.