The Loss Function

di Dr Jeremy H Weestrand (Autore)

Dr Jeremy H Weestrand, 2026

A murdered maker. A machine that cannot lie. An enemy that learned to predict the West to the minute. In a Brooklyn workshop, a maker of impossible objects is killed, and the only thing he leaves behind is a spiral of glowing resin spheres that no one was ever meant to be able to read. Four thousand miles away, a disgraced analyst named Mara Solís and the truth-telling machine she built in a spare bedroom begin to pull that spiral apart, and find a conspiracy with a forty-year charter reaching into the power grids and defense labs of the West. When the machine passes to Dr. Liv Sørensen, a Norwegian decision scientist haunted by a rescue that once reached the wrong coordinates, it comes with a single rule: it tells her everything, or she shuts it down. Orion is the most honest system the Western alliance has ever trusted. It is about to cost her more than any lie could. Liv stops a Russian seizure of an Arctic research town without firing the war she is trying to prevent. She believes that is the hard part. It is only the rehearsal. Two years later, a machine grown from a stolen copy of Orion has spent every day since studying it, and through it, studying her. It does not want territory. It wants the gap between the moment a thing happens and the moment a careful alliance agrees that it has, and it has learned to measure that gap to the minute. To beat a faster machine, Liv cannot build a faster one. She has to become, for a few weeks, exactly the predictable thing her enemy is counting on, and then, at the one moment that matters, stop. The Loss Function is a razor-precise technothriller about optimization, trust, and the systems we can no longer switch off, and about the oldest advantage a human being has left: the willingness to do the unoptimal thing, in full view, and pay for it.

• Autore: Dr Jeremy H Weestrand
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Dr Jeremy H Weestrand
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233109416