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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World cover

1. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz

CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised cover

2. CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

by Katie Hafner, John Markoff

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O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training cover

3. O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training

by Jerry D. Peek

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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World cover

4. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

5. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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High Performance Web Sites cover

6. High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders

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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration cover

7. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? cover

8. Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

by Philip E. Tetlock

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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition cover

9. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Second Edition

by John K. Ousterhout, Ken Jones, Mike Jones

Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything cover

10. Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

by C. Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell

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Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A User's Guide cover

11. Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs: A User's Guide

by Peter C. Gøtzsche

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love cover

12. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love

by Amir Levine, M.D., Rachel Heller

Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair cover

13. Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair

by Daniel P. Brown

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Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships cover

14. Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships

by Robin Dunbar

A General Theory of Love (Vintage) cover

15. A General Theory of Love (Vintage)

by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon

Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 (Atlantis Thinking Machines, 5) cover

16. Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 (Atlantis Thinking Machines, 5)

by Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geisweiller

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Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) cover

17. Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us cover

18. Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us

by Dr. Gordon Rugg

History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 cover

19. History of the Civil War, 1861-1865

by James Ford Rhodes, Everette Beach Long

Man's Search for Meaning cover

20. Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

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Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles, Edition 3.1 cover

21. Socratic Logic: A Logic Text using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, and Aristotelian Principles, Edition 3.1

by Peter Kreeft

The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics) cover

22. The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives.. (Penguin Classics)

by Christopher Columbus

The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure cover

23. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

by Yascha Mounk

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Transformers for Machine Learning: A Deep Dive (Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition) cover

24. Transformers for Machine Learning: A Deep Dive (Chapman & Hall/CRC Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition)

by Uday Kamath, Kenneth L. Graham, Wael Emara

Introduction to Transformers for NLP: With the Hugging Face Library and Models to Solve Problems cover

25. Introduction to Transformers for NLP: With the Hugging Face Library and Models to Solve Problems

by Shashank Mohan Jain

Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition cover

26. Natural Language Processing with Transformers, Revised Edition

by Lewis Tunstall, Leandro von Werra, Thomas Wolf

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Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation cover

27. Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation

by Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst

Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) cover

28. Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

by Sebastian Raschka

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Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: Explore Generative AI and Large Language Models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E 3 cover

29. Transformers for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision: Explore Generative AI and Large Language Models with Hugging Face, ChatGPT, GPT-4V, and DALL-E 3

by DENIS. ROTHMAN

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LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production cover

30. LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production

by PAUL. LABONNE IUSZTIN (MAXIME. VESA, ALEX.), Maxime Labonne, Alex Vesa

Transformer, BERT, and GPT: Including ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering (MLI Generative AI Series) cover

31. Transformer, BERT, and GPT: Including ChatGPT and Prompt Engineering (MLI Generative AI Series)

by Oswald Campesato

Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models cover

32. Building LLM Powered Applications: Create intelligent apps and agents with large language models

by VALENTINA. ALTO

Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice cover

33. Large Language Models: A Deep Dive: Bridging Theory and Practice

by Uday Kamath, Kevin Keenan, Garrett Somers, Sarah Sorenson