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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World - Paperback
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by Pedro Domingos (Author)Recommended by Bill Gates A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning machin...
Getting to Know Arcgis Pro 2.8 - Paperback
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by Michael Law (Author), Amy Collins (Author)Learn the latest version of ArcGIS Pro with the newest edition of this bestselling series. Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 2.8 introduces the tools and functions of ArcGIS Pro, the powerful desktop GIS application. Geographic information system (GIS) software is making a huge impact in businesses and organizations with mapping and analytic capabilities. Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro 2.8 uses practical project workflows to teach best practices to readers of...
Understanding Cryptography: From Established Symmetric and Asymmetric Ciphers to Post-Quantum Algorithms - Hardcover
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by Christof Paar (Author), Jan Pelzl (Author), Tim G?neysu (Author)Understanding and employing cryptography has become central for securing virtually any digital application, whether user app, cloud service, or even medical implant.Heavily revised and updated, the long-awaited second edition of Understanding Cryptography follows the unique approach of making modern cryptography accessible to a broad audience, requiring only a minimum of prior knowledge. After introducing basic cryptography co...
Beginning Programming with Python for Dummies - Paperback
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by John Paul Mueller (Author)Create simple, easy programs in the popular Python language Beginning Programming with Python For Dummies is the trusted way to learn the foundations of programming using the Python programming language. Python is one of the top-ranked languages, and there's no better way to get started in computer programming than this friendly guide. You'll learn the basics of coding and the process of creating simple, fun programs right away. This updated edition features new ...
Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming - Paperback
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by Eric Matthes (Author)Python Crash Course is the world's bestselling programming book, with over 1,500,000 copies sold to date! Python Crash Course is the world's best-selling guide to the Python programming language. This fast-paced, thorough introduction will have you writing programs, solving problems, and developing functioning applications in no time. You'll start by learning basic programming concepts, such as variables, lists, classes, and loops, and practice writing clean code with ...
Una Introducción Elemental a Wolfram Language - Paperback
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by Stephen Wolfram (Author)Wolfram Language representa un avance importante en los lenguajes de programaci n, ya que hace que la computaci n de vanguardia sea accesible para todos. nico en su enfoque de construir a partir de una vasta base de conocimiento y automatizaci n, Wolfram Language permite escalar de una l nea de c digo interactiva y f cil de comprender a sistemas de producci n de millones de l neas.Este libro proporciona una introducci n elemental a Wolfram Language y al pensamiento...
In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior - Paperback
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by Patrick J. Carnes (Author), David L. Delmonico (Author), Elizabeth Griffin (Author)As the coronavirus pandemic moves many aspects of work and life into the digital domain, the accessibility of online pornography and streaming cybersex creates conditions for compulsive and addictive behavior. The much-anticipated second edition of the breakthrough book about recovering from online sexual addiction. As the Internet becomes a more powerful, imposing force in our lives, indeed becoming diffic...
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Paperback
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by Steve Krug (Author)Design intuitive navigation for the ideal user experience Hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on web usability expert Steve Krug's guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it's one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Fresh perspectives and examples New chapter on mobile usability Still short, profusely illustrated...a...
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Paperback
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by Charles Petzold (Author)The classic guide to how computers work, updated with new chapters and interactive graphics "For me, Code was a revelation. It was the first book about programming that spoke to me. It started with a story, and it built up, layer by layer, analogy by analogy, until I understood not just the Code, but the System. Code is a book that is as much about Systems Thinking and abstractions as it is about code and programming. Code teaches us how many unseen layers there are...
What Is Cybersecurity For? - Paperback
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by Tim Stevens (Author)How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future? Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. It is at the heart of how modern societies survive and thrive, yet public understanding is still rudimentary: media portrayals of hoodie-wearing hackers accessing the Pentagon don't convey its complexity or significance to contemporary life. This book addresses this gap, showing that the political dimension is as important as t...
Full Stack Web Development: The Comprehensive Guide - Paperback
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by Philip Ackermann (Author)Full stack web developers are always in demand--do you have the skillset? Between these pages you'll learn to design websites with CSS, structure them with HTML, and add interactivity with JavaScript. You'll master the different web protocols, formats, and architectures and see how and when to use APIs, PHP, web services, and other tools and languages. With information on testing, deploying, securing, and optimizing web applications, you'll get the full frontend an...
The AI Revolution in Book Publishing: A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers - Paperback
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by Thad McIlroy (Author)"I'm amazed at the breadth of what's covered in The Al Revolution in Book Publishing... When I read Thad McIlroy I feel like we're having a conversation!"- Joe Wikert, President, Revenue Path Group"Thad has accomplished the nearly unimaginable: clearly, authoritatively, and comprehensively explaining the multiple dimensions and intersecting issues of AI in publishing."- Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & AssociatesIn The Al Revolution in Publishing: A Concise Guide to Navigat...
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write - Paperback
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by Dennis Yi Tenen (Author) Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides cruci...
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence - Paperback
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by Kate Crawford (Author)The hidden costs of artificial intelligence--from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom "This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."--New Yorker "A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual for the future."--John Thornhill, Financial Times "It's a masterpiec...
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Paperback
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by Virginia Eubanks (Author)WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: "The single most important book about technology you will read this year."Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body: "A must-read." A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination?and how technology affects civil and human rights and econom...
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do - Paperback
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by Erik J. Larson (Author)"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."--John Horgan "If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence."--Peter Thiel Ever since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intell...
Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes - Hardcover
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by Mojang Ab (Author), The Official Minecraft Team (Author)With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to Minecraft Dungeons. It is a dark and dangerous time. Corrupted by the Orb of Dominance, the evil Arch-Illager has gathered a loyal following of Illagers. Together they have ravaged the land, enslaving the peaceful Villagers and forcing them to do their bidding. The Villagers are in desperate need of a hero, and you are their only hope. Within the pa...
How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know - Paperback
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by Brian Ward (Author)Best-selling guide to the inner workings of the Linux operating system with over 50,000 copies sold since its original release in 2014. Linux for the Superuser Unlike some operating systems, Linux doesn't try to hide the important bits from you--it gives you full control of your computer. But to truly master Linux, you need to understand its internals, like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the kernel actually does. In this third edition of the bestsel...
The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks - Paperback
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by Jasper Van Woudenberg (Author), Colin O'Flynn (Author)The Hardware Hacking Handbook takes you deep inside embedded devices to show how different kinds of attacks work, then guides you through each hack on real hardware. Embedded devices are chip-size microcomputers small enough to be included in the structure of the object they control, and they're everywhere--in phones, cars, credit cards, laptops, medical equipment, even critical infrastructure. This means understanding their security is...
Wordpress All-In-One for Dummies - Paperback
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by Lisa Sabin-Wilson (Author)The no-nonsense guide to building your own WordPress site With the help of WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, you can get your first WordPress blog or website set up in no time. Fully updated for the latest WordPress releases, this 8-books-in-1 guide walks you through all the features of this powerful web builder. You'll discover how to choose and customize a theme, pick the perfect web host and URL, and manage multiple websites with multiple authors. Use WordPress...
Steve Jobs: American Genius - Paperback
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by Amanda Ziller (Author)Steve Jobs revolutionized the way we work, listen to music, watch movies, and communicate. By pushing boundaries and always thinking one step ahead, Jobs became an icon, equally as famous for his advanced ideas and design aesthetic as his sleek black turtlenecks. What inspired him? How did he do his job? What made him the man he was?Here is Steve Jobs--the innovator, the rebel, the genius--in an incisive biography of a man who changed the world. Also includes quotes f...
Through the Firewall: The Alchemy of Turning Crisis Into Opportunity - Hardcover
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by Boyd Clewis (Author)Boyd Clewis has defied the odds and gravity. He was born dead, changed schools and homes as a child more times than he can count, became a teenage father and a track star, had more than one close brush with the law, and endured unimaginable family tragedy - all by the time he was barely old enough to drink. He found a brief silver lining in the darkness. When it didn't last, he found himself unable to even get a job in the produce section at Wal Mart. He refused to fai...
Compiler Design Using Kotlin(TM): An Object-Oriented Approach - Paperback
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by John I. Moore (Author)This book is designed primarily for use as a textbook in a one-semester course on compiler design for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students. The only prerequisites for this book are familiarity with basic algorithms and data structures (lists, maps, recursion, etc.), a rudimentary knowledge of computer architecture and assembly language, and some experience with the Kotlin programming language or a closely related language such as Java.A complete stud...
Compiler Design Using Java(R): An Object-Oriented Approach - Paperback
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by John I. Moore (Author)This book is designed primarily for use as a textbook in a one-semester course on compiler design for undergraduate students and beginning graduate students. The only prerequisites for this book are familiarity with basic algorithms and data structures (lists, maps, recursion, etc.), a rudimentary knowledge of computer architecture and assembly language, and some experience with the Java programming language.A complete study of compilers could easily fill several grad...
Data Feminism - Paperback
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by Catherine D'Ignazio (Author), Lauren F. Klein (Author)A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.Author BiographyCatherine D'Ignazio is Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT and coauthor of Data Feminism (MIT Press). Lauren F. Klein is Associate Professor of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.
Number of Pages: 328
Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 7.9 IN
Publication Date: October 03...
The Great Digital Transformation: Reimagining the Future of Customer Interactions - Hardcover
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by Gerard Szatvanyi (Author)Dare to dreamCreating a website and digitizing processes may have seemed cutting edge at one time; but technologies have continued to advance, and retailers must keep up. Gerard Szatvanyi, an entrepreneur and founder of OSF Digital, a leading Salesforce partner, knows firsthand what it takes to remain on top (and not become obsolete) in today's connected retail world. Global brands and companies of all sizes have turned to him, time and again, to help them through ...
The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 2: Detecting Malicious Software - Paperback
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by Patrick Wardle (Author)This first-of-its-kind guide to detecting stealthy Mac malware gives you the tools and techniques to counter even the most sophisticated threats targeting the Apple ecosystem. As renowned Mac security expert Patrick Wardle notes in The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 2, the substantial and growing number of Mac users, both personal and enterprise, has created a compelling incentive for malware authors to ever more frequently target macOS systems. The only effective way to...
Metasploit, 2nd Edition - Paperback
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by David Kennedy (Author), Mati Aharoni (Author), Devon Kearns (Author)The new and improved guide to penetration testing using the legendary Metasploit Framework. Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide has been the definitive security assessment resource for over a decade. The Metasploit Framework makes discovering, exploiting, and sharing vulnerabilities quick and relatively painless, but using it can be challenging for newcomers. Written by renowned ethical hackers and industry experts,...
The Art of Arm Assembly, Volume 1: 64-Bit Arm Machine Organization and Programming - Paperback
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by Randall Hyde (Author)Modern Instructions for 64-Bit ARM CPUs Building on Randall Hyde's iconic series, The Art of ARM Assembly delves into programming 64-bit ARM CPUs--the powerhouses behind iPhones, Macs, Chromebooks, servers, and embedded systems. Following a fast-paced introduction to the art of programming in assembly and the GNU Assembler (Gas) specifically, you'll explore memory organization, data representation, and the basic logical operations you can perform on simple data types. ...
Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work - Hardcover
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by Ravin Jesuthasan (Author), John Boudreau (Author)Two experts on human capital and work provide a practical framework for addressing the leadership and organizational challenges of automation.
Of all the books available on automation and artificial intelligence, this book provides the most "on the ground level" view on what leaders need to do to proactively drive the changes in how work gets done in their organizations.
Explains how automation requires organizations to rethink what a "job" ...
The Adventures of an IT Leader - Hardcover
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by Robert D. Austin (Author), Shannon O'Donnell (Author), Richard L. Nolan (Author)What does it take to lead and manage your company's tech? Becoming an effective IT leader and manager presents a host of challenges--from anticipating emerging technologies, to managing relationships with senior executives, vendors, and employees, to communicating with the board. A good IT leader must also be a strong business leader. This book--now thoroughly updated with a new preface by the authors and curre...
Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to Build the World's First Quantum Computer - Paperback
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by Jonathan P. Dowling (Author)The race is on to construct the first quantum code breaker, as the winner will hold the key to the entire Internet. From international, multibillion-dollar financial transactions to top-secret government communications, all would be vulnerable to the secret-code-breaking ability of the quantum computer. Written by a renowned quantum physicist closely involved in the U.S. government's development of quantum information science, Schrödinger's Killer App: Race to B...
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