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Quantitative finance in Python: a hands-on, interactive look at the QuantLib library through the use of Jupyter notebooks as working examples.

What if agentic AI was less about hype and more about work you can actually inspect?OpenClaw and Hermes for Agentic AI is a practical field guide to building with local agents, memory, tools, sessions, cron jobs, and ACP bridges. It shows how to turn fuzzy ideas into reliable workflows with clear boundaries, real artifacts, and human review where it matters most.If you want a grounded look at how agent systems really operate, this book starts there.

As decentralized finance matures on Cardano, the role of secure infrastructure and reliable market data becomes critical for sustaining complex financial protocols. Indigo Protocol, the network’s leading synthetic asset platform, represents a key driver of on-chain activity through collateralized positions, trading, and asset issuance.Through coordinated Catalyst-funded investments in security auditing and real-time data infrastructure, Indigo demonstrates how tightly integrated upgrades can strengthen protocol resilience while enabling continued growth in user activity. Part of the 12-part On-Chain Impact Study, this case study examines how synthetic asset infrastructure contributes to transaction volume, market dynamics, and network utility, offering data-driven insights into DeFi’s evolving role on Cardano.

As blockchain ecosystems expand, developer infrastructure plays a critical role in enabling adoption, even when its impact is not directly visible on-chain. Mesh SDK was developed to simplify building on Cardano, providing tools, libraries, and integrations that power a growing number of applications across the ecosystem.Through continuous upgrades, protocol support, and widespread developer adoption, Mesh demonstrates how foundational tooling can drive network activity indirectly through downstream integrations. Part of the 12-part On-Chain Impact Study, this case study examines how developer infrastructure contributes to ecosystem growth, offering data-driven insights into how SDK adoption translates into measurable on-chain usage.

As real-world adoption of blockchain expands, proving the authenticity of physical assets without relying on centralized systems remains a critical challenge. TapDano was developed to address this gap by introducing a hardware-based authentication infrastructure that connects physical objects directly to verifiable on-chain data. By combining secure hardware, asymmetric cryptography, and smart contract deployment on Cardano, TapDano demonstrates how physical-to-digital verification can generate measurable on-chain activity and unlock new enterprise use cases. Part of the 12-part On-Chain Impact Study, this case study examines how authentication infrastructure contributes to network usage, highlighting the role of real-world integrations in driving verifiable ecosystem growth.

The Scaling Playbook From WordPress to 1 million orders. One company's 5-year journey through every scaling decision, mistake, and hard-won principle. No code. No fluff. Just architecture thinking.

Quantum computing is real, but is frankly surrounded by a thick fog of hype. Do you want to see it clearly, understand its realities, and even consider joining it as a professional software engineer?

Most senior engineers don't fail AI systems interviews from lack of ability—they fail because they sound like builders when they need to sound like staff. This book gives you the answer flow, the system deep dives (RAG at billion-doc scale, agentic pipelines, token-cost tradeoffs), and the behavioral stories that earn L5/L6 offers at AI-first companies. Built for senior engineers targeting Staff AI Systems roles in the next 8 to 12 weeks.

The Ontological Crisis: This book explores why our current categories for "tools" and "persons" are failing to capture the reality of frontier AI.The Urgent Necessity: It explains why aging populations and economic shifts make the adoption of these "entities" inevitable.Pillars for governance: It offers three foundations to ensure AI augments human performance and serves flourishing

This book familiarizes readers with the world of LLM and agentic AI, and helps them quickly gain a working-level knowledge of building useful agentic AI solutions for process industry operations. With no prerequisites required, practical demo applications, and a hands-on approach adopted throughout, this book makes advanced AI technologies accessible to process engineers and data scientists alike. It aims to help process data scientists and engineers take their first confident steps into Agentic AI world, understand the full picture, and build a strong enough foundation to keep learning and building on their own. Also available here.

The easiest (and shortest) entry point to Event Storming and Domain-Driven Design you will find for free. I designed this book to be as close to a workshop experience as possible, and I did my best to make it so. Instead of focusing solely on abstract concepts, you will follow a real-world case study throughout the chapters.

An illustrated book perfect for teaching your little ones the basics of the C# programming language!