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AI is an amplifier. It magnifies whatever engineering discipline — or lack of it — already exists, which means the bottleneck was never AI's capability; it is the collaboration space you design around it. This book is a six-level progression from early AI panic to sovereign engineering: the discipline of designing the environment in which human and artificial intelligence produce work worth keeping. It moves past prompting into the practices that compound — verification, habitat engineering, specification-first development, and the platform discipline that scales the practice across teams. The habitat is yours to design. Let's build it well.
- Practical AI Programming with PrologMark Watson
The is more to AI than Large Language models. Here we explore Symbolic AI with the Prolog language.
- Learning PatternsPatterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and ReactAddy Osmani and Lydia HallieNo Description Available
Fuck Your Feelings isn't here to comfort you; it's here to rip your excuses apart and force-feed you reality. Get ready for the brutal truth because nobody cares how you feel, only what you do about it.
- A Random Walk at InfinityA Layperson's exposition of Kumar Eswaran's proposed proofs of the Riemann Hypothesis and the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis (an extended extract)Vinayak Eswaran
The author, Kumar Eswaran's younger brother, who had followed his proof from its inception, has presented it here without dilution and all its antecedent history so that it can be understood by undergraduates. It is likely to be the most interesting book on higher mathematics you have ever read.
This may be the one tiny book that changes your experience vim from one of "memorizing random key sequences" to "composing vim commands."This is an intentionally small micro-book, not a comprehensive guide to all the features of this amazingly powerful editor. The tutorial can elevate your practice and enable deeper learning and better retention of vim commands. Go from "conversant" to "capable" more rapidly than you expected!
- Geek on a Harley, the Road to GOTO Chicago: Chaos Tour BookStories of production failure, chaos engineering, motorcycles, communities and escapades on the highways of AmericaRuss Miles
A book of conversations by Russ Miles, CEO of ChaosIQ, on software development, production failures and chaos engineering, captured on the Geek on a Harley tour from San Francisco to the GOTO Chicago 2018 conference.
- Production Engineering from DevOps to MLOpsSebastien Donadio and Arnab Bose
The book to bridge DevOps and MLOps
"5 Years of Vim" promises to be your definitive guide on this transformative journey. Prepare to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling narratives, illuminating tutorials, and invaluable tips and tricks—all curated with a meticulous eye for detail and a passion for empowering coders with Vim's limitless capabilities.
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