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  Mastering Artificial...

  Vladimir Ota

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  Are you curious about Artificial Intelligence but don’t know where to start? This engaging and accessible guide is your ultimate companion to understanding AI and how it’s transforming our world. 
  Whether you’re a professional looking to stay ahead of the curve, a student diving into the field, or simply a curious mind eager to grasp the future of technology, this book is designed for you. 
  Inside, you’ll discover: 
  - What is AI? A beginner-friendly introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning. 
  - AI in Everyday Life: How AI powers tools we use daily, from virtual assistants to recommendation algorithms. 
  - Future Opportunities: Explore how AI is shaping industries like healthcare, finance, education, and more. 
  - Practical Applications: Simple strategies for leveraging AI in your personal and professional life. 
  - Ethics and Challenges: A balanced look at AI’s ethical implications and potential risks. 
  - With clear explanations, real-world examples, and actionable insights, Mastering Artificial Intelligence demystifies this groundbreaking technology. Written in plain English, it bridges the gap  
     between technical jargon and practical understanding. 
  If you’ve ever wondered how AI works, how it affects your life, and how you can benefit from it, this is the guide for you. 
  Take the first step toward understanding the future of technology. Get your copy today and unlock the potential of AI!

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  The Power of Prions - The...

  Michel Brahic

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  Over the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins. Research links various types of prion proteins to neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's—and this has fueled the search for new drugs that could halt the progression of these terrible disorders. Other discoveries have revealed the essential roles prion proteins play in memory and immunity, and the part they may have played in the beginnings of life on our planet. 
   
   
   
  Brahic, a leading researcher on diseases of the central nervous system, first describes the discovery of prions and their role in infection, beginning with early work on the animal disease scrapie and a mysterious human illness in New Guinea, apparently transmitted by cannibalism. Prion proteins were then revealed as the cause of other illnesses, from "mad cow" disease and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, to such noninfectious brain disorders as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. While the prion proteins responsible for diseases are definitively "bad," Brahic also explains that these abnormal prions are rare exceptions. Most of the time, prion proteins actually serve "good" and vital functions—and they may even have been present at the origin of life itself.

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  Being Matt Murdock - One Fan's...

  Christine Hanefalk

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  You will never look at Daredevil the same way again! In fact, you may even start to look at your own world a bit differently too. Welcome aboard a genre-bending ride that combines an ambitious exploration of the science of the senses with a deep dive into the comic book and live-action adventures of the Marvel superhero Daredevil. 
  What could possibly allow someone to hear heartbeats? Is there something it is like to “radar-sense”? Is it true that your remaining senses are enhanced if you lose one of them? And, how is it that any of us can sense anything in the first place? Christine Hanefalk takes an in-depth look at these questions – and many more – in this definitive examination of the science of Daredevil’s senses. Convinced that Matt Murdock makes for the best thought experiment in comics, the author makes a passionate case for how we might come to understand this fan-favorite character on a deeper level, making room for both his blindness and heightened senses. 
  If you are both a Daredevil fan and someone who enjoys the science non-fiction genre, this book is sure to satisfy on both counts. Balancing a healthy amount of irreverence with a meticulously researched examination of the relevant science, as well as the history of Matt Murdock’s fictional pursuits, Being Matt Murdock is sure to entertain and enlighten.About the Author and Narrator 
  Christine Hanefalk is best known in the Daredevil fandom for her website The Other Murdock Papers, where she has been writing about all things Daredevil for well over a decade. Combining her love of Daredevil with a lifelong interest in the natural sciences, she has turned a particular focus to examining the character’s heightened senses through a scientific lens. She holds a Master of Science in Engineering degree in Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University.

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  Hands-on ML Projects with OpenCV

  Mugesh S.

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  Be at your A game in building Intelligent systems by leveraging Computer vision and Machine Learning. 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - Step-by-step instructions and code snippets for real world ML projects. 
  - Covers entire spectrum from basics to advanced concepts such as deep learning, transfer learning, and model optimization
  - Loaded with practical tips and best practices for implementing machine learning with OpenCV for optimising your workflow. 
  
  DESCRIPTION
  This book is an in-depth guide that merges machine learning techniques with OpenCV, the most popular computer vision library, using Python. The book introduces fundamental concepts in machine learning and computer vision, progressing to practical implementation with OpenCV. Concepts related to image preprocessing, contour and thresholding techniques, motion detection and tracking are explained in a step-by-step manner using code and output snippets. 
  
  Hands-on projects with real-world datasets will offer you an invaluable experience in solving OpenCV challenges with machine learning. It’s an ultimate guide to explore areas like deep learning, transfer learning, and model optimization, empowering readers to tackle complex tasks. Every chapter offers practical tips and tricks to build effective ML models. 
  
  By the end, you would have mastered and applied ML concepts confidently to real-world computer vision problems and will be able to develop robust and accurate machine-learning models for diverse applications. 
  
  Whether you are new to machine learning or seeking to enhance your computer vision skills, This book is an invaluable resource for mastering the integration of machine learning and computer vision using OpenCV and Python. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  - Learn how to work with images and perform basic image processing tasks using OpenCV. 
  - Implement machine learning techniques to computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and image segmentation. 
  - Work on real-world projects and datasets to gain hands-on experience in applying machine learning techniques with OpenCV. 
  - Explore the concepts of deep learning using Tensorflow and Keras and how it can be used for computer vision tasks. 
  - Understand the concept of transfer learning and how pre-trained models can be leveraged for new tasks. 
  - Utilize techniques for model optimization and deployment in resource-constrained environments. 
  - Implement end-to-end solutions and address challenges encountered in practical scenarios. 
  
  WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?
  This book is for everyone with a basic understanding of programming and who wants to apply machine learning in computer vision using OpenCV and Python. Whether you're a student, researcher, or developer, this book will equip you with practical skills for machine learning projects. Some familiarity with Python and machine learning concepts is assumed. Beginners too will find this book valuable as it offers clear examples and explanations for every concept. 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  Chapter 1: Getting Started With OpenCV 
  Chapter 2: Basic Image & Video Analytics in OpenCV
  Chapter 3: Image Processing 1 using OpenCV
  Chapter 4: Image Processing 2 using OpenCV
  Chapter 5: Thresholding and Contour Techniques Using OpenCV 
  Chapter 6: Detect Corners and Road Lane using OpenCV
  Chapter 7: Object And Motion Detection Using Opencv
  Chapter 8: Image Segmentation and Detecting Faces Using OpenCV
  Chapter 9: Introduction to Deep Learning with OpenCV
  Chapter 10: Advance Deep Learning Projects with OpenCV
  Chapter 11: Deployment of OpenCV projects

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  The Nature Book

  Tom Comitta

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  Part sweeping evocation of Earth's rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet. 
   
   
   
  What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a "literary supercut" that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel. With fiction's traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.

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  On the Boardwalk

  Martin Sherman

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  A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellen
  Sherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey – where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family – ending on Broadway with the premier of his seminal play Bent starring Richard Gere. On route, we encounter other famous performers including Meryl Streep, Bee Gees, Joan Baez, but the scene-stealing character is always his father – a charismatic narcissist who might have given Trump a run for his money. We stop off in Woodstock, Los Angeles and London – a city Martin would eventually make home; he relays his story with self-depreciating humour as he struggles to make it in theatre, with his sexuality, and under the shadow of the inheritable disease that killed his mother tragically early – a disease from which he finds himself finally free, as he turns forty in the book's closing pages.
  
  "As in his plays, Martin Sherman writes here of complexity with simplicity, of the hidden with utter candour. A fascinating and brilliant example of what a memoir ought to be."—ALAN CUMMING
  "Most shove childhood memories into the recesses of forgetfulness, while others gather each detail like colours in a paint box and use them to create. We call those folks artists. Martin Sherman is such a creature. Within these pages you will find his painterly application of memories, fashioning a masterwork of experiences for us to enjoy."—HARVEY FIERSTEIN
  "Absolutely mesmerising and so fantastically well written that I wish Martin Sherman had written novels as well as plays and screenplays"—STEPHEN FRY
  "Completely absorbing and funny and sad and beautifully told—a real treat and an extraordinary story—what a life."—IAN HISLOP
  "One Hell of a ride. Profound, witty, beautifully written and difficult to forget."—HUGH JACKMAN
  "This memoir is astounding. I'm reading it a second time."—VANESSA REDGRAVE
  "A volume filled with moving, entertaining and fascinating memories, by one of our great stage and screen writers."—PETER TATCHELL
  "On the Boardwalk is full of audacity and joyfulness, jokes and tears, it blew my mind, as it will blow yours." – PETE TOWNSHEND
  "He writes like Philip Roth—but even funnier."—RUBY WAX

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