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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

by Erik J. Larson ...

**“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 ... Read more

$22.59 CAD

**“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
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Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business

A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset

by John Ladley ...

Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset provides a comprehensive discussion of EIM. It endeavors to explain information asset management and place it into a pragmatic, focused, and relevant light. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 provides the material required to sell, understand, and validate the EIM program. ... Read more

$56.79 CAD

Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset provides a comprehensive discussion of EIM. It endeavors to explain information asset management and place it into a pragmatic, focused, and relevant light. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 provides the material required to sell, understand, and validate the EIM program.
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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Implement Moodle in your business to streamline your interview, training, and internal communication processes

by Gavin Henrick, Jeanne Cole, Jason Cole ...

Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter looks at a different aspect of using Moodle in a business environment, and steadily guides the reader through setting Moodle up in their own business with the help of practical examples, accompanied by lots of screenshots. Each chapter also includes case studies from well-known companies that have already implemented Moodle. If you are ... Read more

$47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter looks at a different aspect of using Moodle in a business environment, and steadily guides the reader through setting Moodle up in their own business with the help of practical examples, accompanied by lots of screenshots. Each chapter also includes case studies from well-known companies that have already implemented Moodle. If you are
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Entity Framework 6 Recipes

by Zeeshan Hirani, Larry Tenny, Nitin Gupta, Brian Driscoll, Robert Vettor ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Entity Framework 6 Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's model-centric, data-access platform for the .NET Framework and ASP.NET development. With this book, you will learn the core concepts of Entity Framework through a broad range of clear and concise solutions to everyday data access tasks. Armed with this experience, you will ... Read more

$80.99 CAD

Entity Framework 6 Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's model-centric, data-access platform for the .NET Framework and ASP.NET development. With this book, you will learn the core concepts of Entity Framework through a broad range of clear and concise solutions to everyday data access tasks. Armed with this experience, you will
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Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

by Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman, Tomas Akenine-Möller ...

Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid ... Read more

$142.99 CAD

Thoroughly updated, this fourth edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of programmable shaders, a wide variety of new algorithms have arisen and evolved over the past few years. This edition discusses current, practical rendering methods used in games and other applications. It also presents a solid
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UX Strategy

by Jaime Levy ...

User experience (UX) strategy lies at the intersection of UX design and business strategy, but until now, there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team devise innovative digital solutions that people want.Author Jaime Levy shows UX/UI designers, product managers, ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

User experience (UX) strategy lies at the intersection of UX design and business strategy, but until now, there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team devise innovative digital solutions that people want.Author Jaime Levy shows UX/UI designers, product managers,
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Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn

Develop machine learning and deep learning models with Python

by Sebastian Raschka, Yuxi (Hayden) Liu, Vahid Mirjalili ...

This book of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Python Machine Learning series is a comprehensive guide to machine and deep learning using PyTorch s simple to code framework. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn applied machine learning with a solid foundation in theoryClear, intuitive explanations take you deep into the theory and practice ... Read more

$44.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book of the bestselling and widely acclaimed Python Machine Learning series is a comprehensive guide to machine and deep learning using PyTorch s simple to code framework. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn applied machine learning with a solid foundation in theoryClear, intuitive explanations take you deep into the theory and practice
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50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers

Get the Most Out of Your Database

by Kristina Chodorow ...

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and ... Read more

$15.99 CAD

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and
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Understanding Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency

Beginners Guide to the Crypto Revolution

by Martin May-Clingo ...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies; the future or a fad? Understanding Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency … Beginners Guide to the Crypto Revolution, answers all your questions in-depth using straightforward language cutting though the jargon, to enable you to understand the issues.• What is Bitcoin?• Why do you even need it?• What are the risks and opportunities?• How to get it?• How you can use it and keep it ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies; the future or a fad? Understanding Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency … Beginners Guide to the Crypto Revolution, answers all your questions in-depth using straightforward language cutting though the jargon, to enable you to understand the issues.• What is Bitcoin?• Why do you even need it?• What are the risks and opportunities?• How to get it?• How you can use it and keep it
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Embedded System Design

Embedded Systems Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems, and the Internet of Things

by Peter Marwedel ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts with an introduction to the field and a survey of specification models and languages for embedded and cyber-physical systems. It provides a brief overview of hardware devices used ... Read more

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A unique feature of this open access textbook is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental knowledge in embedded systems, with applications in cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. It starts with an introduction to the field and a survey of specification models and languages for embedded and cyber-physical systems. It provides a brief overview of hardware devices used
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Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain

How Each Brain Makes a Mind

by Stephen Grossberg ...

How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How can you understand something as complex as the tool that is being used to understand ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

How does your mind work? How does your brain give rise to your mind? These are questions that all of us have wondered about at some point in our lives, if only because everything that we know is experienced in our minds. They are also very hard questions to answer. After all, how can a mind understand itself? How can you understand something as complex as the tool that is being used to understand
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Designing Data Visualizations

Representing Informational Relationships

by Noah Iliinsky, Julie Steele ...

Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually.Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually.Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics
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The Turing Hypothesis

The Complete Manuscript

by Alan Turing ...

Could a computer be made to think?Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine.He theorized that ... Read more

$4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Could a computer be made to think?Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine.He theorized that
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Mastering Google Home - Ultimate Guide To Quickstart Your Google Home Experience

by Adidas Wilson ...

Google Assistant is a digital helper that understands audio commands or questions. Other companies have their digital assistants. For example, Apple has Siri and Amazon has the Alexa assistant. Microsoft also owns the Cortana smart digital assistant. The unique aspect about the Google assistant is its ability to hold a conversation. Other assistants give answers to a single question without ... Read more

$5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Google Assistant is a digital helper that understands audio commands or questions. Other companies have their digital assistants. For example, Apple has Siri and Amazon has the Alexa assistant. Microsoft also owns the Cortana smart digital assistant. The unique aspect about the Google assistant is its ability to hold a conversation. Other assistants give answers to a single question without
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Blender Quick Start Guide

3D Modeling, Animation, and Render with Eevee in Blender 2.8

by Allan Brito ...

Learn the new Blender 2.8 user interface and make 3D modelsKey FeaturesFind your way round the new user interface and tools of Blender 2.8Create materials, apply textures and render scenesUse the new cutting-edge real-time render EEVEE in your projectsBook DescriptionBlender is open source 3D creation software. With a long history and an enthusiastic community of users, it is the ideal choice for ... Read more

$28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn the new Blender 2.8 user interface and make 3D modelsKey FeaturesFind your way round the new user interface and tools of Blender 2.8Create materials, apply textures and render scenesUse the new cutting-edge real-time render EEVEE in your projectsBook DescriptionBlender is open source 3D creation software. With a long history and an enthusiastic community of users, it is the ideal choice for
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Taming Silicon Valley

How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

by Gary F. Marcus ...

How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary
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The AI Playbook

Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment

by Eric Siegel ...

Series series Management on the Cutting Edge
In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.“Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning, the key mechanism in AI. A forward-looking, practical book and a must-read for anyone in the information economy.”—Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing; bestselling author of The Four“An ... Read more

$35.19 CAD

In his bestselling first book, Eric Siegel explained how machine learning works. Now, in The AI Playbook, he shows how to capitalize on it.“Eric Siegel delivers a robust primer on machine learning, the key mechanism in AI. A forward-looking, practical book and a must-read for anyone in the information economy.”—Scott Galloway, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing; bestselling author of The Four“An
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Streaming Systems

The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing

by Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak, Reuven Lax ...

Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic
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Engineering a Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon ...

This entirely revised second edition of Engineering a Compiler is full of technical updates and new material covering the latest developments in compiler technology. In this comprehensive text you will learn important techniques for constructing a modern compiler. Leading educators and researchers Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon combine basic principles with pragmatic insights from their experience ... Read more

$63.19 CAD

This entirely revised second edition of Engineering a Compiler is full of technical updates and new material covering the latest developments in compiler technology. In this comprehensive text you will learn important techniques for constructing a modern compiler. Leading educators and researchers Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon combine basic principles with pragmatic insights from their experience
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Python for Finance

by Yves Hilpisch ...

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial
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Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

30th Irish Conference, AICS 2022, Munster, Ireland, December 8–9, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Luca Longo, Ruairi O’Reilly ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes selected papers presented during the 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, held in Munster, Ireland, in December 2022.The 41 presented papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 102 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on machine learning, deep learning and applications; responsible and trustworthy ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes selected papers presented during the 30th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, held in Munster, Ireland, in December 2022.The 41 presented papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 102 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on machine learning, deep learning and applications; responsible and trustworthy
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Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries

Psychological and Social Implications

Edited by Francisco Tigre Moura, Caterina Moruzzi ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
While technological innovation has long reshaped artistic and cultural practices, the rise of generative AI (Gen AI) represents an unprecedented disruption due to its scale, speed, and capacity to produce outputs that can rival and surpass human creativity. This edited book examines how AI is transforming creativity, redefining industries, and raising new questions of authenticity, originality, ... Read more

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While technological innovation has long reshaped artistic and cultural practices, the rise of generative AI (Gen AI) represents an unprecedented disruption due to its scale, speed, and capacity to produce outputs that can rival and surpass human creativity. This edited book examines how AI is transforming creativity, redefining industries, and raising new questions of authenticity, originality,
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Applied Text Analysis with Python

Enabling Language-Aware Data Products with Machine Learning

by Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro, Tony Ojeda ...

From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This
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Salesforce.com Interview Q & A & Certification Question Bank with Answers

by Mohammed Azizuddin Aamer ...

This book contains more than Salesforce.com 100+ Actual Interview Questions with Answers.It also contains 200+ Salesforce.com Certification Questions and Answers of both Developer and Administrator Tracks.Very useful and handy for Interview & Certification Preparation and those who are appearing for both Developer as well as Administrator Certification Exam Tracks. ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book contains more than Salesforce.com 100+ Actual Interview Questions with Answers.It also contains 200+ Salesforce.com Certification Questions and Answers of both Developer and Administrator Tracks.Very useful and handy for Interview & Certification Preparation and those who are appearing for both Developer as well as Administrator Certification Exam Tracks.
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