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Agent Loops for Beginners

How Plan-Act-Observe-Reflect Workflows Make AI Agents Useful for Coding, Research, Automation, and Productivity

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You have asked an AI assistant a question and gotten a good answer. Then you asked a follow up, got a correction, and tried again, and eventually landed on something genuinely useful. That back and forth is the seed of everything in this book. An agent is simply that loop running on its own: it plans what to do, acts by using a tool, observes what actually happened, and reflects on whether it is ... Read more

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You have asked an AI assistant a question and gotten a good answer. Then you asked a follow up, got a correction, and tried again, and eventually landed on something genuinely useful. That back and forth is the seed of everything in this book. An agent is simply that loop running on its own: it plans what to do, acts by using a tool, observes what actually happened, and reflects on whether it is
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The Crimes of Old Shanghai

Opium, Kidnapping, Foreign Concessions, Secret Societies, and a City Beyond One Law

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Shanghai in 1927 did not feel like one city. It felt like 3 cities pressed together so tightly that a man could commit a crime on one street, walk 2 blocks, and stand beyond the reach of the policeman who chased him. A rickshaw puller needed 2 badges on 2 streets, a merchant paid 3 taxes on 1 shipment, and a gangster rented a room on Avenue Joffre to buy French protection. This book explains how ... Read more

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Shanghai in 1927 did not feel like one city. It felt like 3 cities pressed together so tightly that a man could commit a crime on one street, walk 2 blocks, and stand beyond the reach of the policeman who chased him. A rickshaw puller needed 2 badges on 2 streets, a merchant paid 3 taxes on 1 shipment, and a gangster rented a room on Avenue Joffre to buy French protection. This book explains how
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Adventures with Energy

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Adventures with Energy is a collection of 11 absorbing stories that explore the properties and uses of energy. Where do we find energy, what do we use it for and how does it help to sustain life? Follow three families on their encounters with different forms of energy as they travel around the world, across Singapore and in their homes and school. Be intrigued by amazing fun facts about energy and
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A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

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Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised government: a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women. As Zuma fights for his political life following the 2017 Gupta emails leak, this cabal – the president’s keepers – ensures that after years of ruinous rule, he
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Inc.com 5 Business Thrillers to Read on the Beach This Summer * Amazon Best Book of the Month - Nonfiction * An Economist Book of the Year * The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the ... Read more

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The New Koreans

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Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been ... Read more

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Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been
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Seven Things You Can't Say About China

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#1 New York Times BestsellerSenator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly geopolitical threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy.“As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’m often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no—it’s worse than you can imagine.”Seven Things You Can’t Say About China is Tom ... Read more

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