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  • Big Math

    The Hidden Codes That Run Our World

    by Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend ...
    The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every ... Read more

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    Big Math

    The Hidden Codes That Run Our World

    by Steven Strogatz, Alex Townsend ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours

    The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs—from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to artificial intelligence and beyond—while also slipping further and further from our understanding, with potentially earth-shaking consequences.We live in a world fueled by math that we barely notice. It’s in every ... Read more

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  • Texas Women and Ranching

    On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities

    by John T. Becker, Light Townsend Cummins, Alex Hunt, Jean Stuntz, Renee M. Laegreid, Amy M. Porter, Brooke Wilbracht ...
    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    Winner, 2020 Liz Carpenter Award For Best Book on the History of WomenThe realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field worthy of study but as a bold and ... Read more

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  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

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  • The Singularity Is Near

    When Humans Transcend Biology

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an “elaborate, smart, and persuasive” (The Boston Globe) view of the future course of human development.“Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.”—Los Angeles Times“Startling in scope and bravado.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times“An important book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer... ... Read more

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  • The Joy Of X

    A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

    by Steven Strogatz ...
    “Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem again!”—Scientific AmericanMany people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series ... Read more

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  • The Master Algorithm

    How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

    by Pedro Domingos ...
    **Recommended by Bill GatesA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own**In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, ... Read more

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  • Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

    Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need ... to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

    by William Poundstone ...
    "An enjoyably brain-stretching account of the world's toughest, most mischievous job-interview questions" ( Wired)."As usual, Poundstone delivers. Delightful, fun, and worth a read." —Seth Godin"Serious ammunition to pack for your next job interview." — Kirkus ReviewsYou are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. What do you do?If yo... ... Read more

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  • The Age of Spiritual Machines

    When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

    by Ray Kurzweil ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Bold futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity Is Near, offers a framework for envisioning the future of machine intelligence—“a book for anyone who wonders where human technology is going next” (The New York Times Book Review).“Kurzweil offers a thought-provoking analysis of human and artificial intelligence and a unique look at a future in which the capabilities of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Artificial Intelligence

    by Editors of Scientific American ...
    Drawn from the pages of Scientific American and collected here for the first time, this work contains updated and condensed information, made accessible to a general popular science audience, on the subject of artificial intelligence. ... Read more

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  • The Simulated Multiverse

    An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, the Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Computing and the Mandela Effect

    by Rizwan Virk ...
    Series Book 2 - The Simulation Hypothesis
    Do multiple versions of ourselves exist in parallel universes living out their lives in different timelines? In this follow up to his bestseller, The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist and Silicon Valley Game Pioneer Rizwan Virk explores these topics from a new lens: that of simulation theory.If we are living in a simulated universe, composed of information that is rendered around us, ... Read more

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  • The Half-Life of Facts

    Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    New insights from the science of scienceFacts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this ... Read more

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