Books

What makes a researcher truly exceptional? This practical guide explores the thinking, skills and habits behind great research. From finding the right questions to evaluating evidence and sharing your findings, it offers a clear, practical path to doing research that is rigorous, creative and genuinely useful.

Go beyond the basics of Tor and learn how to build private, resilient services on the dark web. From onion routing and v3 onion services to real-world threats and secure deployment, this book gives you the technical knowledge and practical skills to host privacy-critical services without exposing where they live.

What if you could build an AI that writes just like you? In Building Your LLM Twin, you'll follow a hands-on journey from raw writing data to a fully deployed AI that captures your unique voice. Learn to build, fine-tune and scale real-world LLM systems with practical code, proven techniques and the tools to take your project from concept to production.

Unlock the full potential of large language models with RAG. This book takes you from core concepts to production-ready systems, exploring everything from embeddings and search to evaluation and security. With clear explanations, runnable code and practical insights, you'll learn how to build reliable AI systems grounded in the knowledge that matters.

事情沒有做好，不等於你這個人不好。透過虛構的成人學習情境、例題與自願練習，重新思考責任、回饋與自我評價；不承諾療效或特定成長結果。

Humanity faces an existential crisis from the depths of the Earth, forcing the last survivors to flee into space as the ultimate battle for survival begins.

In a hyper-connected Parramatta, nine ordinary men wake up to discover a centralized compliance algorithm has abruptly erased their digital identities. Instantly locked out of their bank accounts, workplaces, and physical homes, their wives must wage a desperate, analog war to hack the city's infrastructure and restore their husbands' existence. The Parramatta Patch is a chilling techno-thriller exploring the terrifying fragility of freedom in a world governed by unfeeling machines.

Explore how modern GPU virtualization brings near-native performance to Linux virtual machines. From hardware and KVM/QEMU internals to virtio-nvgpu and NVIDIA's shared GPU architecture, this book takes you inside the stack with practical configurations, source code analysis and deployment patterns for real-world systems.

"Board exams don’t just test your knowledge—they exploit your cognitive fatigue. This volume revolutionizes medical preparation by replacing cluttered, colorful distractions with a structured, timeless 'Vintage Blueprint' aesthetic across 16 rigorous clinical chapters. Engineered specifically for medical and nursing graduates, it bypasses verbose theory to deliver bulletproof, actionable algorithms designed to rapidly decode high-stakes exam vignettes under strict time constraints. It is not just another review book; it is a clinical weapon for mental clarity, absolute focus, and board-exam mastery."

Can you trace every tonne of CO₂e from the furnace to the finished steel product—and defend the result? Learn ISO 14067 through worked calculations, three steelmaking routes, and a complete industrial case study.

What I love about Dask is that it won't make us start from scratch. It doesn't ask us to learn a new language, adopt a new way of thinking, or rewrite five years of careful analysis into something completely different. It just takes the tools we've already got and quietly teaches them to work in parallel. The dataframe remains a dataframe. The array is still an array. The difference is that the work now spreads across eight cores, or eight hundred, and we barely had to change how we think.

Go beyond basic Linux tuning and learn how performance really works under the hood. Explore kernel internals, hardware behavior, benchmarking and production optimization with practical tools, real trade-offs and copy-paste-ready examples. Build the skills to diagnose bottlenecks and solve performance problems with confidence.

A practical survey of WebAssembly, WebGPU, WASI, runtimes, toolchains, and WASM-native languages at the browser–GPU frontier.