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Books, TV, Movies and Music

Books, TV, movies, and music bring a variety of benefits to our lives.

Books, TV, movies, and music are important tools that provide information and knowledge. By being exposed to content of various genres and themes, we can gain new ideas and perspectives, and acquire new skills and expertise. They can also develop a rich imagination by stimulating their imaginations.

They can also provide a visual/audio experience and allow people to empathize emotionally with the story, experiencing joy, sadness, excitement, and more.

The following is a discussion of various book and music topics.

Book

• The Island of Surfing

The Island of Surfing” by Yoshio Kataoka, published in 1980 and now out of print. It contains five short stories about Hawaii and surfing.

• 100 miles to the sea.

Yoshio Kataoka on his surfing novel “The Wave Calls” and his photo essay “100 Miles to the Sea.

• Court Inside California’s Ocean Taught Me

The Japanese translation of this memoir by Daniel Duane is currently out of print. The title of the English version is “Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast“, and it seems to be available in pay-per-view.

• Angel Ball

Kazuaki Teraya is a 41-year-old divorcee who lives in Innoshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, with his two elementary school-aged sons while driving a truck.
One night, Kazuaki Teratani suffers a traffic accident and is given a magical ball that flies as he wishes by a mysterious angel who appears in front of him.
One night, Kazuaki suffers a car accident and a mysterious angel appears in front of him and gives him a “magic ball that flies as he wishes.” Kazuaki goes to take the test to join the Hiroshima Carp in order to fulfill his childhood dream of making the Carp the best in Japan.

• BORN TO RUN

The story begins with the writer, who is 193cm tall and weighs 104kg, jogging a mere three miles (5km) on a snowy farm road, when he suddenly feels a severe pain and shows it to a sports medicine doctor, who diagnoses him with an inflamed cuboid bone and gives him a thick injection in the sole of his foot. I was diagnosed with an inflammation of the cuboid bone (sole) and given a thick injection in the sole of my foot, and told to wear motion-controlled running shoes costing at least $150 and custom-made orthotics ($400).

• Ryotaro Shiba and Shotaro Ikenami and the Historical Novel

Both Ryotaro Shiba and Shotaro Ikenami wrote novels in the genre of historical novels, and both were born in 1923. The two are once again the focus of attention.

• Foundation

Foundation is a science fiction series written by Isaac Asimov in 1951. In Japanese translation, it is titled “Foundation: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire” and is published by Hayakawa Shobo.

• Artificial Intelligence and TV Drama

I once read an article in wired that science fiction writers are increasingly being commissioned to create scenarios to determine the direction to take in corporate management and policy making, and that this is starting to become a viable business. In order to predict what kind of technology will be needed in the future, I think it is important to draw inspiration not only from the accumulation of existing technologies but also from the world of fiction, including actual use scenes.

• Project Hail Mary, MacGyver and the Frontier Spirit

Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir was published in March 2021 and became a science fiction novel that created a great deal of buzz around the world. Project Hail Mary” can be superimposed on this very American “frontier spirit” and “Christian ideology,” which is why it is so widely accepted in the United States.

• Science Fiction Novel “Three Bodies”, the Three Bodies Problem, and Machine Learning Technology

Three Bodies is a full-length science fiction novel by Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin, serialized in the Chinese science fiction magazine “Science Fiction World” from May to December 2006, and published in book form by Chongqing Press in January 2008, as part of the “Earthward Journey” trilogy.

Music

• Mathematics, Music and Computers

I believe that mathematics abstracts the laws and patterns of the world and gives them form. The fact that mathematics occupies an important position in machine learning and artificial intelligence is not only due to its function in line with the computer’s ability to calculate, but also because of its ability to abstract laws and patterns. Furthermore, mathematics is a field that requires “free thinking” and “the ability to feel” in order to find patterns and laws by devising various viewpoints and ideas. From this perspective, “music,” which uses various intuitions and ideas to create patterns that move people’s hearts, can be considered to have something in common with mathematics.

• History of the Blues and Automatic Generation with Clojure

Blues is one of the roots of modern popular music and can be one of the genres that play an important role. Here we discuss the history of blues and its auto-generation by Clojure.

• November Steps and Toru Takemitsu and Music Concrete

November Steps” was composed by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu in 1967. It is one of Toru Takemitsu’s most representative works and is considered one of the most important works in his musical style and approach. Musique concrète” is a genre of electronic music pioneered by French composers Pierre Henry Marteau and Pierre Schaeffer. It is a methodology for creating music through the recording and editing of sound.

• Jazz Overview and Mechanical Performance

Jazz is a popular entertainment music with its roots in blues and ragtime, which originated spontaneously in New Orleans, Louisiana, a port city in the southern United States facing the Caribbean Sea, at the end of the 19th century, mainly by African Americans, as described in “History of Blues and Automatic Generation by Clojure”. The music is a popular form of entertainment with its roots in the blues and ragtime.