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  Natural Language Processing for...

  James Ferry

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  "Natural Language Processing for Beginners: A Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to Understanding and Applying Natural Language Processing Techniques" is your gateway to the exciting world of NLP. This book is meticulously crafted for those new to the field, providing a solid foundation in the essential concepts, techniques, and applications of NLP. 
  Dive into the fundamentals of how computers understand and process human language. Starting with the basics, you'll explore core topics such as text preprocessing, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition. The book then guides you through more advanced subjects, including sentiment analysis, machine translation, and text classification, using both traditional machine learning and cutting-edge deep learning approaches. 
  With clear explanations, practical examples, and hands-on exercises, this guide ensures you gain both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. You'll learn how to gather and preprocess data, choose the right models, train and evaluate them, and finally deploy NLP systems in real-world scenarios. 
  "Natural Language Processing for Beginners" offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the fascinating field of NLP, equipping you with the tools and knowledge to start your journey in this rapidly evolving domain.

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  Is Anyone Listening? - What...

  Denise L. Herzing

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  If you could pose one question to a dolphin, what would it be? And what might a dolphin ask you? For forty years, researcher and author Denise L. Herzing has investigated these and related questions of marine mammal communication. But the dolphins are not the only ones talking, and in this wide-ranging and accessible book, Herzing explores the astonishing realities of interspecies communication, a skill that humans currently lack. 
   
   
    
  Is Anyone Listening? connects research on dolphin communication to findings from Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Dian Fossey on mountain gorillas, Cynthia Moss on African elephants, and others driving today's exploration of possible animal languages. As Herzing reveals, researchers are finding fascinating hints of language in nonhuman species, including linguistic structures, vowel equivalents, and complex repeated sequences. By looking at the many ways animals use and manipulate signals, we see that we've only just begun to appreciate the diversity of animal intelligence and the complicated and subtle aspects of animal communication. 
   
   
    
  Considering dolphins and other nonhuman animals as colleagues instead of research subjects, Herzing asks us to meet animals as both speakers and listeners, as mutually curious beings, and to listen to what they are saying.

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  Rethinking Hypothyroidism - Why...

  Antonio C. Bianco

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  In this primer for patients, their families, and their doctors, a leading physician and scientist explains why the standard treatment for hypothyroidism fails many—and offers an empowering call for change.
   
  
   
  Hypothyroidism, also commonly referred to as Hashimoto’s disease, affects millions in the United States alone. It occurs when the thyroid—the butterfly-shaped gland that sits in your neck right above the front of your shirt collar—malfunctions or after thyroid surgery, causing thyroid hormone levels in circulation to drop below normal. Thus, treatment is aimed at bringing these hormone levels back to normal. This is done with daily tablets of thyroxine or T4. Because hypothyroidism is so common, we likely know someone who is on this type of medication. While most patients respond well to this standard treatment, about ten to twenty percent (some two to three million individuals in the United States) are far from living a typical life. They exhibit “foggy brain”—low energy, confusion, and poor memory. Many doctors have shrugged off their complaints, believing these symptoms to be unrelated to the thyroid disease. In Rethinking Hypothyroidism, Dr. Antonio C. Bianco, a physician and a scientist who has studied hypothyroidism and thyroid hormones for decades, offers an accessible overview of the disease’s treatment and the role of big pharma in shaping it, making the case that the current approach is failing many patients. But more than this, Bianco calls for alternatives to improve lives, and he equips patients and their families with the tools to advocate for other treatments.

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  Designing for Democracy - How to...

  Jennifer Forestal

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  How should we "fix" digital technologies to support democracy instead of undermining it? In Designing for Democracy, Jennifer Forestal argues that accurately evaluating the democratic potential of digital spaces means studying how the built environment—a primary component of our "modern public square"—structures our activity, shapes our attitudes, and supports the kinds of relationships and behaviors democracy requires. 
   
   
   
  While many scholars and practitioners are attentive to the role of design in shaping behavior, they have yet to fully engage with the question of what structures are required to support democratic communities—and how to build them. Forestal closes this gap by providing a new theory of democratic space. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines, she argues that "democratic spaces" must be designed with three environmental characteristics—boundaries, durability, and flexibility—that, taken together, afford users the ability to engage in fundamental civic practices. 
   
   
   
  Through extended analyses of Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit, Forestal shows precisely how well these digital platforms meet the criteria for democratic spaces, or whether they do so at all. The result is a nuanced analysis of the democratic communities that form—or fail to emerge—in these spaces, as well as more concrete suggestions for how to improve them.

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  Cave of Bones

  Lee Berger, John Hawkes

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  In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Africa—spaces where his team has been unearthing the remains of Homo naledi, a proto-human likely to have coexisted with Homo sapiens some 250,000 years ago. The lead researcher on the site, still Berger had never made his way into the dark, cramped, dangerous underground spaces where many of the naledi fossils had been found. Now he was ready to do so. Once inside the cave, Berger made shocking new discoveries that expand our understanding of this early hominid—discoveries that stand to alter our fundamental understanding of what makes us human. So what does it all mean? Join Berger on the adventure of a lifetime as he explores the Rising Star cave system and begins the complicated process of explaining these extraordinary finds—finds that force a rethinking of human evolution, and discoveries that Berger calls "the Rosetta stone of the human mind."

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  Mastering Data Science and Big...

  Maxine Chen

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  Are you prepared to transform your knowledge of the digital landscape and unleash the power of data-driven insights? Explore the world of data science and big data analysis by diving into the pages of "Mastering Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Mastering Big Data- Strategies and Tools for Effective Analysis," an insightful book. This book is your key to understanding the intricacies of data analysis, regardless of whether you're an experienced practitioner looking to improve your abilities or a novice keen to learn the basics. 
  Using big data to extract insights in this era of excess information is more important than ever. This book breaks down the ideas of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, giving you a thorough grasp of the complexities of data analysis. Explore the meaning of the three Vs of big data: volume, velocity, and variety, and discover how these influence data analysis practices in various businesses. 
  Are you excited to see instances of big data applications in the real world that have revolutionized specific industries? This book walks you through case studies demonstrating the practical applications of data analysis across various sectors, including marketing, entertainment, finance, and healthcare. Learn how data scientists use the CRISP-DM framework to traverse the data science lifecycle, from analyzing and preparing data to evaluating and deploying models. 
  Equip yourself with the methods and tools that lead to insights as you become an expert in big data analysis. Examine feature engineering, data transformation, and preprocessing techniques to ensure your studies are precise and insightful. Dive into the realm of artificial intelligence and machine learning, utilizing algorithms to reveal trends and connections that influence markets and spur creativity.

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