Books

A manifesto against simulated empathy.A blueprint for ethical design.This is not a book about AI—it’s about what we mistake it for.

How Software Fails: A Field Guide to Understanding Complex System DisastersSoftware failures aren’t accidents, they’re inevitable. From cosmic rays flipping bits to tiny files crashing millions of machines, our most critical systems collapse in ways no one foresaw. Through gripping cases, the $460M Knight Capital meltdown, the lethal Therac-25, a file grounding global air travel, this book uncovers the hidden rules of complex disasters. Drawing on Richard Cook’s principles, it shows why testing can’t guarantee safety, how “reasonable” choices spawn chaos, and why scale makes the impossible certain. But it’s also about resilience: NASA’s Mars rovers, Netflix’s chaos engineering, and the ethics of life-critical systems. For engineers, managers, or curious readers, this guide reshapes how you see the fragile systems running our world.

This is a work of fiction that attempts to document what might happen if a fictional Wisc senior citizen named Lefty Insider attempts to seek justice against exploitation from a fictional monopolistic corporation, (identified as Charpectrum), through the Federal and State Consumer Protection systems.This fictional tale seeks to imagine what a realistic experience would be like if a well-informed, educated and technically competent persistently stubborn consumer, of German ancestry, sought the protection of government agencies against the financial and marketing exploitation from a rapacious and malevolent incumbent monopoly Internet service provider corporation.This is also a story about elected idiots, liars, fools, incompetents, bureaucrats, and of course is but a fictional story about imagined government run Consumer Protection systems.

Audiencing is something we do everyday. We do it all the time. In fact, we are so familiar with giving attention to someone or something how we audience and the types of audiencing we are do are invisible. This book makes visible four types of audiencing, and you will discover what it means to do each form of audiencing and why this matters. Playful popular quotes, academic research, and anecdotes from numerous fields of endeavour from computer programming to jujitsu, from movie editing to watching a friend play football, are all used to demonstrate the characteristics and challenges of each audiencing type. Audiencing presents a far-reaching concept and a useful language to see and understand ourselves as audiences in our work and study, in the arts, communications, sport, on the internet, and in our everyday lives as we audience each other. To discover more – audience on.

Did you ever wonder which ChatBot fits you better? Could bots have distinct personalities? And what about inference transparency, like system prompts? Explore how AI models and frontends differ in structure, personality, and usability – and find the best fit for your needs!

Can we imagine a world where everything we collectively know as humans, everywhere, is available and understandable to everyone of us, anytime, with the same quality of the clearest and strongest memory we can recall? If such a world would exist, how would it be and which characteristics the global society in it would have?

Embark on a riveting journey into the heart of artificial intelligence with "The Rise of the Machines," a compelling exploration that unveils the power and potential pitfalls of AI technology. In this ebook, we delve into the very essence of AI, unraveling its capabilities, and exposing the imminent threat of a looming takeover.

Tired of experiencing poor Internet speeds, bandwidth error messages, buffering, and freezing along with excessive monopoly pricing, Lefty takes on an Internet monopolist and demands irrefutable proof of the delivery of their advertised service levels. He fights for the little guys historically being duped with overpricing and under delivery.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and learn like humans. In other words, AI involves creating algorithms and computer programs that can perform tasks that usually require human intelligence, such as perception, decision-making, natural language understanding...

Beyond practical applications, the McGinty Equation underscores the beauty and elegance of physics, demonstrating how theoretical concepts can be used to solve complex problems and uncover new truths about the universe. Its potential applications extend beyond quantum mechanics and into other fields, such as biology, finance, and computer science.

The field of AI is highly interdisciplinary & evolutionary. The more AI penetrates our life and environment, the more comprehensive the points we have to consider and adapt. Technological developments are far ahead of ethical & philosophical interpretations. This fact is disturbing.We need to close this gap as soon as possible.

Do you want to understand more about why technology projects fail, and what you might be able to do about it?Do you want to become a better engineer and be more effective at changing your world?If you answer yes to these questions, this book may help you!

Although we do have some good books about open source software licensing, most of these books are written by (and to) lawyers, which hinder the understanding of busy developers. This book also has a practical orientation. After covering the concepts of open source licensing, we highlight real examples of good and bad licensing usage.