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Co-Existence

The Next Phase of AI

by Ethan Mollick ...

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists, and creators...yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense, and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply ... Read more

$16.99 USD

How do we live alongside machines that are sometimes smarter than us?We are entering a new era. AI systems can already outperform humans in some domains while failing spectacularly in others. They can act as tutors, collaborators, researchers, strategists, and creators...yet they can also produce falsehoods, generate convincing nonsense, and fail unpredictably. The challenge is no longer simply
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c... ... Read more

$11.99 USD

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c...
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The AGI Chronicles

The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

by Kevin Roose ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." —Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk"[Kevin Roose] came out with the most important story in AI: how a few executives, and the relationships between them, somehow came to determine the future of everything.” ... Read more

$16.99 USD

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Exciting and brilliantly reported . . . Roose makes the technology understandable while also conveying the historic nature of a new world being born." —Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk"[Kevin Roose] came out with the most important story in AI: how a few executives, and the relationships between them, somehow came to determine the future of everything.”
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Big Math

The Hidden Codes That Run Our World

by Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend ...

The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every ... Read more

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The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every
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Path to Singularity

How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

by J. Craig Wheeler ...

In a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society, takes a critical look at the technological advances shaping our future. From artificial intelligence to genetic engineering, Wheeler explores how these innovations are interconnected and the potential ... Read more

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In a rapidly changing world, are we on the brink of creating technology that outpaces our ability to control it?Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society, takes a critical look at the technological advances shaping our future. From artificial intelligence to genetic engineering, Wheeler explores how these innovations are interconnected and the potential
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AI Superpowers

China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York MagazineIn this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in ... Read more

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER"Kai-Fu Lee believes China will be the next tech-innovation superpower and in AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, he explains why. Taiwan-born Lee is perfectly positioned for the task."—New York MagazineIn this thought-provoking book, Lee argues powerfully that because of the unprecedented developments in
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The Proof in the Code

How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

by Kevin Hartnett ...

“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le... ... Read more

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“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le...
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SQL Pocket Guide

A Guide to SQL Usage

by Alice Zhao ...

If you use SQL in your day-to-day work as a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer, this popular pocket guide is your ideal on-the-job reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexities, along with key aspects of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.In this updated edition, author Alice Zhao describes how these database ... Read more

$22.39 USD

If you use SQL in your day-to-day work as a data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer, this popular pocket guide is your ideal on-the-job reference. You'll find many examples that address the language's complexities, along with key aspects of SQL used in Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.In this updated edition, author Alice Zhao describes how these database
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Digital Healthcare and Artificial Intelligence

A Primer for Clinicians and Students

Edited by Clare Rainey, Sonyia McFadden, Jonathan McConnell ...

Series series AI in Clinical Practice
Digital technologies are essential to future-proof our health service. With an ageing population and the landscape of the post-pandemic world making increasing demands on an already-stretched human workforce, maximising the potential of a digital future is necessary. This book introduces the concepts and underpinning technology behind recent developments to give a snapshot of the state of the art ... Read more

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Digital technologies are essential to future-proof our health service. With an ageing population and the landscape of the post-pandemic world making increasing demands on an already-stretched human workforce, maximising the potential of a digital future is necessary. This book introduces the concepts and underpinning technology behind recent developments to give a snapshot of the state of the art
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超级图典：中小学常用简笔画10000例

by MCOO儿童益智开发中心编着 ...

本書共收錄了10000 多例兒童簡筆劃圖案，通過豐富的線條和誇張的表現手法將日常生活中的事物幻化為生動、實用的形象，囊括各年齡段的人物、各種職業的人物、其他人物、四足動物、飛禽動物、家畜家禽、水生動物、昆蟲、花卉、樹木、水果、蔬菜、食物、生活用品、電器、學習用品、交通工具、建築、天體與自然現象、樂器、武器、服飾、體育用品、黑板報/手抄報資料、綜合場景等多種主題。本圖典主題豐富、畫風多元，是賣場的美工人員、POP 相關從業人員、設計、幼兒教師等美術工作者的必備工具書，也可供廣大美術愛好者尤其是卡通愛好者學習參考。 ... Read more

$9.47 USD

本書共收錄了10000 多例兒童簡筆劃圖案，通過豐富的線條和誇張的表現手法將日常生活中的事物幻化為生動、實用的形象，囊括各年齡段的人物、各種職業的人物、其他人物、四足動物、飛禽動物、家畜家禽、水生動物、昆蟲、花卉、樹木、水果、蔬菜、食物、生活用品、電器、學習用品、交通工具、建築、天體與自然現象、樂器、武器、服飾、體育用品、黑板報/手抄報資料、綜合場景等多種主題。本圖典主題豐富、畫風多元，是賣場的美工人員、POP 相關從業人員、設計、幼兒教師等美術工作者的必備工具書，也可供廣大美術愛好者尤其是卡通愛好者學習參考。
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Artificial Superintelligence

A Futuristic Approach

by Roman V. Yampolskiy ...

A day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI). Many philosophers, futurists, and AI researchers have conjectured that human-level AI will be developed in the next 20 to 200 years. If these predictions are correct, it raises new and sinister issues related to our future in the age of ... Read more

$54.99 USD

A day does not go by without a news article reporting some amazing breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI). Many philosophers, futurists, and AI researchers have conjectured that human-level AI will be developed in the next 20 to 200 years. If these predictions are correct, it raises new and sinister issues related to our future in the age of
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The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind ...

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions
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Generative AI for the Medical Student

Core Concepts to Clinical Practice

by Campion Quinn ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book provides medical students with a practical, non‐technical roadmap for understanding, applying, and leading generative AI in clinical practice. Despite explosive interest in AI, there is no accessible, clinically focused primer tailored to medical students without programming backgrounds. Educators and students need a resource that translates theory into actionable skills, crafting ... Read more

$58.49 USD

This book provides medical students with a practical, non‐technical roadmap for understanding, applying, and leading generative AI in clinical practice. Despite explosive interest in AI, there is no accessible, clinically focused primer tailored to medical students without programming backgrounds. Educators and students need a resource that translates theory into actionable skills, crafting
... Read more
Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini ...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What ... Read more

$43.19 USD

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What
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The AI Con

How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna ...

A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A smart, incisive work of technology criticism that examines the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks of systems sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors.Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big tech scientists created an artificial lifeform that can think
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Site Reliability Engineering

How Google Runs Production Systems

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Christof Leng, David Huska, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy ...

Google pioneered the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), applying reliability to the entire user journey for consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure systems. In the years since, many organizations have followed suit, guided by the tenets laid out in the best-selling first edition of this practical book. Now, a fully revised edition brings Site Reliability Engineering up-to-date with ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Google pioneered the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), applying reliability to the entire user journey for consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure systems. In the years since, many organizations have followed suit, guided by the tenets laid out in the best-selling first edition of this practical book. Now, a fully revised edition brings Site Reliability Engineering up-to-date with
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Nexus

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of
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Meeting The Machine

by Cristina DiGiacomo ...

Most of what is written about AI is loud. This book is a quiet guide to what you can do.Eleven disciplines about who we can become when we meet the machine. It is short enough to carry and deep enough to return to. It goes into a coat pocket, then onto a desk, then, sooner than you expect, quietly passed along into someone else's hands.Read it once and the loudness fades. Keep it close and the ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Most of what is written about AI is loud. This book is a quiet guide to what you can do.Eleven disciplines about who we can become when we meet the machine. It is short enough to carry and deep enough to return to. It goes into a coat pocket, then onto a desk, then, sooner than you expect, quietly passed along into someone else's hands.Read it once and the loudness fades. Keep it close and the
... Read more
A Brief History of Intelligence

Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

by Max S. Bennett ...

“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed ... Read more

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“I found this book amazing. I read it through quickly because it was so interesting, then turned around and read much of it again.”—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow“I've been recommending A Brief History of Intelligence to everyone I know. A truly novel, beautifully crafted thesis on what intelligence is and how it has developed
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Rule of the Robots

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford ...

The New York Times–bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over our livesIf you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to ... Read more

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The New York Times–bestselling author of Rise of the Robots shows what happens as AI takes over our livesIf you have a smartphone, you have AI in your pocket. AI is impossible to avoid online. And it has already changed everything from how doctors diagnose disease to how you interact with friends or read the news. But in Rule of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that the true revolution is yet to
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We Are as Gods

A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler ...

Series series Exponential Technology Series
National BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think comes a bold exploration of what it means to stay human in a world where technology has granted us godlike power.In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: “We are as gods—and we might as well get good at it.” Half a century later, that prophecy has come true.We can rewrite gen... ... Read more

$14.99 USD

National BestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance, Bold, and The Future Is Faster Than You Think comes a bold exploration of what it means to stay human in a world where technology has granted us godlike power.In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: “We are as gods—and we might as well get good at it.” Half a century later, that prophecy has come true.We can rewrite gen...
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The CISO 3.0

A Guide to Next-Generation Cybersecurity Leadership

by Walt Powell ...

Series series Security, Audit and Leadership Series
This isn’t just a book. It is a roadmap for the next generation of cybersecurity leadership. In an era where cyber threats are more sophisticated and the stakes are higher than ever, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) can no longer rely solely on technical expertise. They must evolve into strategic business leaders who can seamlessly integrate cybersecurity into the fabric of their ... Read more

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This isn’t just a book. It is a roadmap for the next generation of cybersecurity leadership. In an era where cyber threats are more sophisticated and the stakes are higher than ever, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) can no longer rely solely on technical expertise. They must evolve into strategic business leaders who can seamlessly integrate cybersecurity into the fabric of their
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Robot-Proof

When Machines Have all the Answers, Build Better People

by Vivienne Ming ...

A compelling story to expand the human’s perspective on the new, unprecedented world of AIIn Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People, Dr. Vivienne Ming, “a force in AI unlike any we have seen before” (Mark Minevich, Forbes), helps readers grasp the ugly and the amazing of how individuals, companies, and societies will respond to the changes that are already taking hold ... Read more

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A compelling story to expand the human’s perspective on the new, unprecedented world of AIIn Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People, Dr. Vivienne Ming, “a force in AI unlike any we have seen before” (Mark Minevich, Forbes), helps readers grasp the ugly and the amazing of how individuals, companies, and societies will respond to the changes that are already taking hold
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Machine Learning, revised and updated edition

by Ethem Alpaydin ...

Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
MIT presents a concise primer on machine learning—computer programs that learn from data, and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars.No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required!Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition—as well as some we don’t yet use every day, including ... Read more

$12.99 USD

MIT presents a concise primer on machine learning—computer programs that learn from data, and the basis of applications like voice recognition and driverless cars.No in-depth knowledge of math or programming required!Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition—as well as some we don’t yet use every day, including
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