Books

Every news feed is full of AI buzzwords: Transformers, tokens, embeddings, context windows, hallucinations, objective functions. Yet most explanations are either dense academic textbooks or empty marketing fluff. ☕ Coffee Break AI is your practical guide to AI. Written in plain English with warm real-world analogies. It breaks down the core mechanisms of AI into 40 bite-sized chapters.

We all use data every day, often without realizing it. The Data Mind reveals how paying attention to patterns, asking better questions, and thinking more consciously can change the way we make decisions, understand ourselves, and see the world around us.

Turn analysis into action. Learn to design professional charts, interactive dashboards, and executive reports that communicate insight, reveal business performance, and help decision-makers understand what matters most.

Move beyond spreadsheets and think like a BI professional. Learn Power Pivot, star schema design, and DAX to build relational data models, dynamic measures, and scalable analytical solutions that power modern business intelligence.

Most Excel books teach features. This book teaches analytical thinking. Learn how to structure data, design professional workbooks, and build reliable analytical solutions while mastering the MO-210 Excel Associate curriculum. The essential foundation for every aspiring data, business, and financial analyst.

Mathematical Foundations of AI and Data Science: Discrete Structures, Graphs, Logic, and Combinatorics in Practice transforms abstract mathematical concepts into practical tools for computational problem-solving.Explore logic, set theory, relations, functions, combinatorics, discrete probability, graph algorithms, trees, algebraic structures, Boolean systems, recurrence relations, optimization.

AIエージェントの構築が、これほど容易だった時代はない。そして、実際に機能するものを作ることが、これほど難しい時代もない。本書は言語モデルの基礎から本番対応マルチエージェントシステムまで、失敗が起こる前に予測し、壊滅的な障害ではなく優雅な劣化を設計し、完全なアーキテクチャの所有権を確立するための深さをもって、あなたを導く。ペーパーバック版はamazonにて好評発売中。

A hands-on, code-first journey from raw EEG signals to deep learning andself-supervised foundation models — with a runnable Colab notebook for everychapter.

Language is data. Mathematics is the engine that makes machines understand it.Discover the mathematical foundations behind modern Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence.Inside this book, you will learn:✔ Vector Space Models and Text Representation✔ Linear Algebra for Language Processing✔ Probability Theory and Statistical NLP✔ n-Gram Language Models and Smoothing Techniques✔ Word2Vec, GloVe, and FastText Embeddings✔ Matrix Factorization and Latent Semantic Analysis✔ Contextual Representations with ELMo and BERT✔ Hidden Markov Models and Probabilistic Grammars✔ Topic Modeling with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)✔ Optimization and Neural Language Models✔ Mathematical Foundations of GPT and Large Language Models✔ Ethical Challenges and Bias in NLP SystemsWhether you are a student beginning your NLP journey or a researcher exploring advanced language models, this book provides the mathematical intuition and practical understanding needed to succeed in the rapidly evolving field of Natural Language Processing.Move beyond coding. Understand the mathematics that powers intelligent language systems.

Learn Python. Build AI. Create the Future.What if you could write Python programs that generate content, answer questions, create code, summarize documents, and power intelligent applications?Python Simplified with Generative AI takes you on a complete journey from Python basics to advanced AI-powered development.Inside this book, you will learn:✔ Python Programming from Scratch✔ Data Structures and Object-Oriented Programming✔ AI and Machine Learning Foundations✔ Generative AI Concepts and Applications✔ Prompt Engineering Techniques✔ GPT-Powered Text Generation✔ AI Chatbots and Virtual Assistants✔ Image Generation with AI APIs✔ Flask, FastAPI, Streamlit, and Gradio Development✔ Real-World AI Projects for Your PortfolioWhether you are a student, professional developer, freelancer, educator, or entrepreneur, this book will help you transform ideas into intelligent applications and prepare for the next generation of software development.The future belongs to developers who can combine programming with artificial intelligence. Start building that future today.

Artificial Intelligence learns from information.But how do modern AI systems decide what information to keep and what to discard?Why do GANs generate realistic images?How do large language models compress knowledge?What role does entropy play in reinforcement learning?Can information theory explain intelligence itself?Information Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Entropy, Coding, Regularization, and Generative Models (Volume II) explores the advanced information-theoretic foundations behind today's most powerful AI systems.Inside this volume, you will discover:✓ Contrastive Learning and Representation Learning✓ InfoNCE Loss and Mutual Information Estimation✓ Self-Supervised Learning Architectures✓ Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)✓ Wasserstein GANs and InfoGAN✓ Mode Collapse and GAN Stability✓ Entropy-Driven Reinforcement Learning✓ Soft Actor-Critic Frameworks✓ Fisher Information and Natural Gradients✓ Information Geometry for Neural Networks✓ Information Theory Behind Large Language Models✓ Token Entropy and Perplexity✓ Transformer Information Routing✓ Federated Learning Communication Constraints✓ Explainable AI Through Entropy and Mutual Information✓ Quantum Information Theory and AI✓ Information Bottleneck Theory✓ AI Fairness, Safety, Alignment, and Future Research ChallengesWhether you are a student, researcher, educator, or AI professional, this volume provides the mathematical and conceptual tools required to understand the information-processing principles that drive modern intelligent systems.Learn how information becomes intelligence.

What is intelligence?At its core, intelligence is the ability to process information.But what exactly is information?How do neural networks compress knowledge?Why does cross-entropy dominate machine learning?How do Variational Autoencoders learn latent representations?What role does entropy play in regularization, generalization, and modern AI systems?Information Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Entropy, Coding, Regularization, and Generative Models (Volume I) provides a comprehensive exploration of the mathematical foundations that power modern artificial intelligence.Inside this volume, you will discover:✓ Shannon Entropy and Measures of Information✓ Mutual Information and Feature Learning✓ Cross-Entropy and Machine Learning Loss Functions✓ Kullback–Leibler (KL) Divergence✓ Source Coding and Data Compression✓ Huffman, Arithmetic, and Lempel–Ziv Coding✓ Channel Capacity and Communication Limits✓ Information-Theoretic Learning Principles✓ Information Bottleneck Theory✓ Entropy-Based Regularization✓ Neural Networks as Information Processing Systems✓ Error-Correcting Codes and AI Robustness✓ Neural Communication Systems✓ Variational Inference and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)Whether you are a student, researcher, educator, or AI professional, this book provides the conceptual and mathematical foundation necessary to understand how information drives learning, intelligence, and modern AI systems.Learn not just how AI works—but why it works.

Artificial Intelligence is powered by neural networks.But how do neural networks actually learn?How do systems recognize faces, understand speech, generate text, and create images?Neural Networks and Architectures: A Comprehensive Guide for Students provides a complete learning pathway from fundamental concepts to state-of-the-art deep learning architectures.Inside this book, you will discover:✓ Biological inspiration behind neural networks✓ Mathematical foundations of deep learning✓ Perceptrons and Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs)✓ Forward Propagation and Backpropagation✓ Activation Functions and Regularization Techniques✓ Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)✓ Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), LSTM, and GRU✓ Autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)✓ Transformer Architecture, BERT, and GPT✓ Optimization Algorithms and Model Training✓ Practical Projects using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras✓ Ethical Considerations and Future Research DirectionsDesigned for students, educators, researchers, and AI enthusiasts, this book combines theory, mathematics, implementation, and applications into one comprehensive learning resource.Build a strong foundation in neural networks and prepare yourself for the future of Artificial Intelligence.

Today, AI and machine learning are driven by statistical thinking. As many leading experts emphasize, without a solid understanding of statistics, you cannot truly understand, evaluate, or safely use AI. This book gives you that edge.

Structured Streaming, MLlib, GraphFrames, performance tuning, testing and CI, and the lakehouse. Eleven chapters that take a competent PySpark user from "the job runs" to "the on-call team trusts the job.