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  Impact of New Technologies on...

  Siddhartha Paul Tiwari

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  Biography of the Author - Siddhartha Paul Tiwari 
  Siddhartha Paul Tiwari is an educator and a technologist. Currently, he is employed by Google Asia Pacific, Singapore. Prior to that, he was responsible for global learning and development at Google, based in Tokyo. His achievements include innovative educational techniques, the development of new graduate and postgraduate course curricula, digital intervention strategies, and the use of information and communication technologies in education. As the teaching environment has rapidly changed, Tiwari has been working tirelessly to integrate new technologies into university curricula and to help academia adjust to these changes. 
  An Overview of the Book 
  We already see the impact of emerging technologies on our lives and the economy in many different ways, particularly when it comes to the way we live our lives and the way we work. Due to this, there is fierce competition among companies across the globe in order to ensure that they are able to benefit from the new technological developments. Globally, the United States and Asia are emerging as the two global leaders in this area. Over the years, there has been a significant change in the landscape of emerging technologies since Alan Turing first asked in the 1950s if machines could think like humans. Emerging technologies will enhance economic growth and efficiency in the future. It is possible to greatly improve decision-making when large amounts of data are analysed by improving efficiency. It is likely that new products and services, new markets, and new industries will be created as a result, which will in turn boost consumer demand and generate new revenue streams. On the other hand, emerging technologies may also have a profound effect on society and the economy.

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  The Monster's Bones - The...

  David K. Randall

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  In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. 
   
   
   
  When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture. 
   
   
   
  The Monster's Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times bestselling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it.

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  Hardware for LLM AI - A...

  Et Tu Code

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  Hardware for LLM AI offers a comprehensive exploration into the intricate world of hardware infrastructure tailored for Large Language Models (LLMs). With a keen focus on practicality and depth, this ebook serves as an indispensable guide for both beginners and seasoned professionals navigating the complexities of LLM hardware. 
  In the introductory section, readers are primed with fundamental insights into the role of hardware in powering LLMs. From understanding the core principles behind LLM hardware to grasping its significance in the broader landscape of artificial intelligence, this section sets the stage for a deep dive into the intricacies of hardware optimization. 
  Whether you're delving into LLM hardware for the first time or seeking to refine your existing setup, this ebook equips you with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions. From dissecting the essential components of LLM hardware to unraveling the

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  Drift Into Failure - From...

  Sidney Dekker

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  What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner’s tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to understand better how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.

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  Mastering PostgreSQL for Data...

  Jaques Fozao

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  Design, Optimize, and Scale PostgreSQL for Modern Data Pipelines.
  Book Description
  PostgreSQL is a leading open-source database, essential for modern data engineering tasks. Mastering PostgreSQL for Data Engineering and Cloud Deployment is your complete guide to unlocking PostgreSQL’s full potential in data-centric environments.
  Starting with installation and configuration, the book moves through foundational SQL, complex queries, and schema design. You will then deep dive into backup and restore, replication, high availability, and performance tuning strategies necessary for large-scale data workflows. The final chapters guide you through integrating PostgreSQL with AWS cloud services like RDS, EC2, and S3, enabling cloud-native data operations and migrations.
  Packed with real-world use cases, this book helps data engineers streamline operations, optimize queries, and build resilient, high-performance database systems.
  Hence, whether you are designing pipelines or managing production workloads, this is your roadmap to PostgreSQL mastery.
  Table of Contents
  1. Introduction to PostgreSQL
  2. Installing and Initializing PostgreSQL
  3. Subsets of SQL
  4. Understanding the Database
  5. PostgreSQL Configurations and File Permissions
  6. Backup and Restore
  7. Replication and High Availability
  8. Upgrade
  9. Performance Tuning
  10. Functions in PostgreSQL
  11. Demystifying Table Joints, Subqueries, CTE, and Views
  12. Cloud Computing (AWS)
  13. IAM Users and AWS Migration       
  
  Index

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  Deforestation - The Silent...

  Marcus Kline

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  Forests are among the Earth’s most precious resources, spanning vast landscapes and serving as critical lifelines for countless species, including humanity. Their towering trees and dense undergrowth form a complex ecosystem that sustains biodiversity, provides essential resources, and regulates the natural processes that make life possible. Yet, beneath this quiet resilience, forests face an ongoing crisis. The relentless clearing of these vital ecosystems, known as deforestation, has become one of the greatest threats to our planet’s delicate balance.  
    
  Deforestation is the systematic removal of forested areas for purposes such as agriculture, logging, mining, and urban development. While forests have been cleared throughout history to make way for human settlements and progress, the scale of destruction in modern times far surpasses anything seen before. Once regarded as boundless, forests are now disappearing at a rate that defies imagination. Landscapes that took centuries to form can be leveled in days, leaving behind scars that may take generations to heal—if they ever do.  
    
  Forests are far more than clusters of trees; they are intricate systems where every plant, animal, and microorganism plays a role in sustaining life. When a forest is lost, its inhabitants—many of which are found nowhere else on Earth—are left without refuge. Fragile ecosystems collapse, species are driven toward extinction, and the harmony that once thrived among living organisms begins to unravel. But the consequences extend far beyond the forest’s borders. Rivers dry up as watersheds lose their protective canopies, soils erode without the roots that once anchored them, and communities dependent on forests for food, medicine, and shelter face an uncertain future. 

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