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The Rattle BagBook

by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

Who uses, recommends or left The Rattle Bag, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Vicki Boykis
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval; previously at Mozilla.ai, Duo, Tumblr and Automattic, and author of the 'What are embeddings?' text.
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The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes - In an age of LLM-generated poetry and machine learning curation (even coming from yours truly sometimes), it's refreshing to have real people who love poetry curate it and show you what you need to read to touch grass.

Her 'Favorite books of 2024' post, where she tries to balance technical reading with fiction.

2024-12-31·vickiboykis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.