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AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexity of language, and interprets your behaviour to decide which of your friends' Facebook posts you most want to see. In the coming years, it'll perform medical diagnoses and drive your car - and maybe even help our authors write the first lines of their novels. But how does it actually work? Scientist and engineer Janelle Shane is the go-to contributor about computer science for the New York Times, Slate and the New Yorker.

Robert Hand was known in his early career as the first practicing astrologer to write astrology programs for microcomputers (in 1977) so that the benefits of computers would be available to astrologers. From this effort, he founded Astro-Graphics Services in 1979, which later became Astrolabe, Inc. He was a founding member of Project Hindsight, a group dedicated to retrieving and translating traditional astrology texts. He served as an editor, translator, and publisher of ancient astrological writings.

An in-depth look beyond the basics. The basics are everywhere. Depth...isn't. Skills, mastery, or having an expertise requires depth. Learn the basics needed as a beginner here, while simultaneously developing depth.The depth covered in this book will reach a beginner with zero knowledge of Ethereum without scratching your head over the technical look-at-me-using-big-words type jargon.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with facts? A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? Best-selling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud.

In this book, we will be looking at how technology has progressed through the years to get a glimpse of the future. Here, you will learn how humans lived their lives in the past and how technology has influenced that way of life and transformed it into what it is today. We will also discuss certain turning points in human society that lead us to where we are now.

Cryptocurrencies may have crashed into the news and stayed there, but the technology that made them possible is still mysterious to most of us. In this book, you’ll not only find out about the blockchain and how it has revolutionized data storage, but you'll also learn how to it could change almost every industry on the planet. Most people think of the blockchain as a cog in the wheel of bitcoin, but it’s a whole lot more than that.