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  The System of the World

  Isaac Newton

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  "One law to rule the stars, the tides, and the falling apple."
  
  In The System of the World, Isaac Newton takes his rigorous mathematical proofs and applies them to the vast canvas of the cosmos. This is the work where the abstract becomes tangible. Newton explains with startling clarity how the same force that pulls an object to the ground keeps the Moon in its orbit and the planets in their dance around the Sun. He demystifies the movement of comets, the bulging of the Earth at its equator, and the rhythmic pulling of the tides. It is a foundational text of the Scientific Revolution, representing the moment humanity finally grasped the invisible threads that hold the physical world together.
  
  The Unity of the Heavens and Earth: Before Newton, many believed the laws of Earth and the laws of the Heavens were entirely separate. The System of the World shatters this divide. Newton's "Universal Law of Gravitation" proves that the universe is a unified system, predictable and governed by elegant, unchanging laws.
  
  A Blueprint for Modern Astronomy: Newton uses this work to calculate the masses of planets and explain the perturbations in their orbits. His insights into the "Great Comet of 1680" proved that even these seemingly chaotic visitors follow the same elliptical paths as the planets, bringing order to the last frontier of the night sky.
  
  Why It Is a Scientific Landmark: The System of the World is more than a physics book; it is the birth of the modern world. It moved humanity away from superstition and toward a universe that could be measured, understood, and explored. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the mechanical age and the leap in logic that allowed us to eventually reach the stars.
  
  Witness the logic of the cosmos. Purchase "The System of the World" today.

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  Navigating Uncertainty - Simple...

  Anna L Pereira

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  We live in a time of rapid change and what can feel like relentless uncertainty. Against this backdrop, the future often feels uncertain, leaving us searching for a path forward. This book offers strategies for navigating these times, beginning with ourselves and extending outward. Shaped in collaboration with one of the most cited scientists of our time, rooted in robust science (specifically active inference and free energy), and told through approachable stories, it provides a practical foundation for making sense of today’s complexity. Across these chapters, you’ll find tools to better understand an uncertain world and to move through it with greater clarity, resilience, and connection.

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  The Art of AI Business Analyst &...

  Tom Henricksen

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  The AI revolution is transforming the business landscape. **Business Analysts who embrace AI will gain a significant competitive advantage. This concise ebook equips you with the essential knowledge to thrive in this new era, covering:Machine Learning: How algorithms learn from data to make predictions.Deep Learning: The power of neural networks and their diverse applications.Generative AI: The exciting world of AI that creates new content.Large Language Models: The foundation of many AI applications.Prompt Engineering: The art of effectively interacting with AI models. Download now and gain the knowledge you need to succeed in the AI-powered future.

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  Ultimate Parallel and...

  Nabanita Dash

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  Unleash Julia’s power: Code Your Data Stories, Shape Machine Intelligence!
  Book Description
  This book takes you through a step-by-step learning journey, starting with the essentials of Julia's syntax, variables, and functions. You'll unlock the power of efficient data handling by leveraging Julia arrays and DataFrames.jl for insightful analysis. Develop expertise in both basic and advanced statistical models, providing a robust toolkit for deriving meaningful data-driven insights. The journey continues with machine learning proficiency, where you'll implement algorithms confidently using MLJ.jl and MLBase.jl, paving the way for advanced data-driven solutions. Explore the realm of Bayesian inference skills through practical applications using Turing.jl, enhancing your ability to extract valuable insights. The book also introduces crucial Julia packages such as Plots.jl for visualizing data and results.
  The handbook culminates in optimizing workflows with Julia's parallel and distributed computing capabilities, ensuring efficient and scalable data processing using Distributions.jl, Distributed.jl and SharedArrays.jl. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge and practical insights needed to excel in the dynamic field of data science and machine learning.
  Table of Contents
  1. Julia In Data Science Arena
  2. Getting Started with Julia
  3. Features Assisting Scaling ML Projects
  4. Data Structures in Julia
  5. Working With Datasets In Julia
  6. Basics of Statistics
  7. Probability Data Distributions
  8. Framing Data in Julia
  9. Working on Data in DataFrames
  10. Visualizing Data in Julia
  11. Introducing Machine Learning in Julia
  12. Data and Models
  13. Bayesian Statistics and Modeling
  14. Parallel Computation in Julia
  15. Distributed Computation in Julia
  Index

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  The Book on the Bookshelf

  Henry Petroski

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  From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. 
  Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn’t. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. 
   Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, when books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security. He explains how the printing press not only changed the way books were made and shelved but also increased their availability and transformed book readers into book owners and collectors. 
  In delightful digressions, Petroski lets Seneca have his say on “the evils of book collecting;” examines the famed collection of Samuel Pepys and his only three thousand titles—old discarded to make room for new; and discusses bookselling, book buying, and book collecting through the centuries. 
  This is the ultimate book on the book: how it came to be and how we have come to keep it.

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  Social Capital: Life online in...

  Aoife Barry

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  A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals. 
  At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores. Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest cities, became a beacon of Silicon Valley’s promise of progress and power. As the face of the capital was remade in the image of Big Tech, Irish society embraced technology like no other. Romantic Ireland was dead and gone: social media was here to stay. 
  In this provocative account, Aoife Barry explores the human cost of Ireland’s Faustian pact with Big Tech, from the local communities uprooted by Google to the traumatised moderators squirrelled in the capital’s pockets, keeping the internet safe at a terrible price. Unsettling, insightful, and wryly funny, she paints a portrait of a country addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing Twitter, scrolling and scrolling towards a feverish future. She turns an equally honest eye on her own life online, from her humble beginnings using dial-up in her parent’s kitchen to working for Ireland’s first digital-only newsroom, and asks what we bargain in exchange for life in the metaverse. 
  Social Capital is the coming of age story of Ireland 3.0: set against the backdrop of the tech revolution, it chronicles how we collapse the boundary between physical and virtual reality, and where we might go from here. 
  Barry's new book, Social Capital, is a popular science exploration into the world of computers and information technology. It's a top pick for anyone interested in the intersection of culture, economics, and the latest developments in the tech industry. 
  For fans of Bill Gifford (Ledyard), Britney Spears (The woman in me), Dolly Alderton (Everything I Know About Love), Bono (Surrender), and Ian H. Robertson (How Confidence Works). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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