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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Are you more likely to become a professional footballer if your surname is Ball? How can you be one hundred per cent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeiians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? How do you prevent a nuclear war? Ever since the dawn of human civilisation, we have been trying to make predictions about what's in store for us. We do this on a personal level, so that we can get on with our lives efficiently (should I...
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Unlike the wheel, combustion engines, or electricity, AI does the thing that humans do best: think. While AI hasn't reproduced the marvelously complex human brain, it has been able to accomplish astonishing things. It has defeated our best human players at games like chess, Go, and Jeopardy!. It's learned to recognize objects and speech. AI tools like ChatGPT can create art and high-quality writing. It's even helped grieving people feel as though...
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Publisher
Pop!
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Forecasting Weather introduces readers to meteorologists and how they study the weather to make their forecasts. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index.
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Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Recognized national AI expert, and the US Air Force's first Chairperson for Artificial Intelligence, Michael Kanaan weaves an intriguing new spin on our history of innovation and technology to masterfully explain what each of us should know about modern computing, AI, and machine learning.
7) Begin again
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Publisher
Philomel, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In his first illustrated book created specifically for readers of all ages, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity and shares his dreams for where we go from here. With his bold, iconic art, Oliver Jeffers follows the human path from the dawn of our species through history, sharing profound, sometimes poignant, commentary on our present, and then offers a challenge: Where do we go from here? How can we create new stories and new systems...
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Publisher
Worthy
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The American Church is changing in fundamental ways. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation- moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic, pluralistic culture, where no one faith group will have the advantage. At the same time, millions of Americans - including...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction....
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English
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Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor--inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch--decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the long life she's led, while she's still around to enjoy it. She's not ill, as far as anybody knows, but Flor does have a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. Has she foreseen her own...
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Series
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beck and Haskins reveal the most important technologies and social and cultural changes that will soon cause an unprecedented level of disruption in the United States, as well as in countless other nations. Elite radicals are plotting to seize increasingly more power for themselves and the institutions they control using emerging technologies: artificial intelligence, central bank digital currencies, brain implants, and even gene editing and bioengineering....
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Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. But its influence goes far beyond practical applications....
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian and eye-opening assessment of American power. In THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER international strategist Peter Zeihan examines how geography, combined with demography and energy independence, will pave the way for one of the great turning points in history, and one in which America reasserts its global dominance. No other...
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