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  Dick Carter: Yacht Designer - In...

  Dick Carter

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  Not many 'amateur' yacht designers would dare to enter the first boat they had ever designed into the epic offshore Fastnet Race, let alone with the intention of winning it. But that is what Dick Carter did in 1964, beating all 151 other yachts, some sailed by the most notable sailors of the day. He repeated the feat 4 years later with another of his own designs (which also won the Admiral's Cup that year as top boat and top team), but by then he could certainly not be described as an 'amateur' yacht designer. His radical innovations created fast and comfortable boats which were much in demand in this, the golden age of offshore racing. They were commissioned by the top sailors and succeeded in winning the Admiral's Cup, Southern Cross Series, One Ton Cup, Two Ton Cup and many of the biggest races. He even went on to design the massive 128-foot Vendredi Treize for Jean-Yves Terlain to sail single-handed in the 1972 OSTAR (trans-Atlantic) race – the longest boat ever to have been raced single-handed. But after just a decade at the top of his game, he quit the world of sailing and moved on to other challenges. He hadn't been heard of for so long that sailors assumed he was dead. His surprise appearance at the funeral of Ted Hood gave rise to the suggestion that he wrote this book. It is beautifully produced with many fabulous photographs and boat plans and was first published in the US by Seapoint Books and is now published in the UK by Fernhurst Books. While his career as a yacht designer may have been brief, the impact of his innovations has lasted the test of time. Who today would think of an offshore yacht without internal halyards in the mast or that the rudder always had to be fixed to the keel? These concepts, and many more, were first introduced by Dick Carter.

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  Back Pain Relief

  Randy Charach

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  Have back pain? Tried everything to get the relief you crave? Doctors and other therapists don’t appear to have the answer?

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  Little Deaths All in a Row -...

  Elizabeth Earley

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  “What do you think happens after we die?” has been Elizabeth Earley’s favorite conversation starter since the motorcycle accident that almost killed her. In Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, Earley delves into memories of past lovers and offers vivid portraits of the hospice patients she has worked with after recovering from her own near-fatal injuries. Tracing the many connections—philosophical, scientific, ethical, and spiritual—between sex and death, these lyric essays ponder the afterlife, pain and pleasure, quantum entanglement and love, and the “strange and painful goodness of being alive.”

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  Kickstart Artificial...

  Dr. S.Mahesh Anand

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  Master AI Fundamentals and Build Real-World Machine Learning and Deep Learning Solutions.
  Book Description
  AI is transforming industries, driving innovation, and shaping the future of technology. A strong foundation in AI fundamentals is essential for anyone looking to stay ahead in this rapidly evolving field.
  Kickstart Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals is a comprehensive companion designed to demystify core AI concepts, covering Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks. Tailored for all AI enthusiasts, this book provides hands-on Python implementation using the TensorFlow-Keras framework, ensuring a seamless learning experience from theory to practice.
  Bridging the gap between concepts and real-world applications, this book offers intuitive explanations, mathematical foundations, and practical use cases. Readers will explore supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning models, master Convolutional Neural Networks for image classification, and leverage Long Short-Term Memory networks for time-series forecasting. Each chapter includes coding examples and guided exercises, making it an invaluable resource for both beginners and advanced learners.
  Table of Contents
  1. Introduction and Evolution of AI Technologies
  2. Modern Approach to AI
  3. Introduction to Machine Learning
  4. Regression Versus Classification Model
  5. Naive Bayes as a Linear Classifier
  6. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models
  7. Distance-Based Machine Learning Models
  8. Support Vector Machines
  9. Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks
  10. Training Neural Networks
  11. Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks
  12. Classification Using CNN
  13. Pre-trained CNN Architectures
  14. Introduction to Recurrent Neural Networks
  15. Introduction to Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)
  16. Application of LSTM in NLP and TS Forecasting
  17. Emerging Trends and Ethical Considerations in AI       
  
  Index

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  DevOps for Beginners - A...

  May Sherry

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  "DevOps for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Modern Software Development and Operations." This comprehensive guide is designed for those new to DevOps, offering a clear, step-by-step introduction to transforming software delivery and operations through innovative practices and tools. 
  "DevOps for Beginners" is more than just a guide—it's a gateway to mastering the modern approaches that are revolutionizing how software is built, deployed, and managed. Whether you're a developer, operations professional, or IT leader, this book will equip you with the knowledge and skills to drive efficiency, collaboration, and innovation in your organization. 
  Start your DevOps journey today and transform your software development practices with this essential guide 
   

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  The Big Bang of Numbers - How to...

  Manil Suri

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  Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space—could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try. 
   
   
   
  In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design our world, starting with numbers and continuing through geometry, algebra, and beyond. He reveals the secret lives of real and imaginary numbers, teaches them to play abstract games with real-world applications, discovers unexpected patterns that connect humble lifeforms to enormous galaxies, and explores mathematical underpinnings for randomness and beauty. With evocative examples ranging from multidimensional crochet to the Mona Lisa's asymmetrical smile, as well as ingenious storytelling that helps illuminate complex concepts like infinity and relativity, The Big Bang of Numbers charts a playful, inventive course to existence. Mathematics, Suri shows, might best be understood not as something we invent to explain Nature, but as the source of all creation, whose directives Nature tries to obey as best she can.

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