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How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents

How to Find Out Anything From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents

How much money does my boss make? Where is my great-grandmother buried? Who did my college girlfriend marry? How many other card stores are there in the town where I want to open mine? How can I change careers at the age of fifty? What companies would want to buy what my company produces and […]

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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Complete Official Guide

The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild The Complete Official Guide

Breath of the Wild features a gigantic realm, known as Hyrule, that you can explore at your leisure. From very early in the adventure you are free to take your character, Link, to any place that he can physically reach. At first, the play area is limited to a single region – the Great Plateau. […]

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CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 Cert Guide

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 Cert Guide

The CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) certification is a popular certification for those in the security field. Although many vendor-specific networking certifications are popular in the industry, the CompTIA CASP+ certification is unique in that it is vendor neutral. The CompTIA CASP+ certification often acts as a stepping-stone to more specialized and vendor-specific certifications, such […]

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CASP+ CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide: Exam CAS-003

CASP+ CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner Study Guide Exam CAS-003

The CASP+ certification was developed by the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) to provide an industry- wide means of certifying the competency of security pro-fessionals who have a minimum of 10 years’ general hands- on IT experience with at least 5 years’ hands- on IT security experience. The security professional’s job is to protect the […]

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CompTIA Data+ DA0-001 Exam Cram

CompTIA Data+ DA0-001 Exam Cram

About This eBook ePUB is an open, industry-standard format for eBooks. However, support of ePUB and its many features varies across reading devices and applications. Use your device or app settings to customize the presentation to your liking. Settings that you can customize often include font, font size, single or double column, landscape or portrait […]

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Multistep Continuous Flow Synthesis of Fine Chemicals with Heterogeneous Catalysts

Multistep Continuous Flow Synthesis of Fine Chemicals with Heterogeneous Catalysts

Continuous-flow synthesis has many advantages over conventional batch synthesis from the viewpoint of efficiency, safety, environmental friendliness, and scalability. Among several types of continuous-flow methods, flow reactions using heteroge-neous catalysts are the most attractive and efficient system for multistep chemical transformations, because the use of activated reagents can be avoided and catalysts can be easily […]

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Microsoft 365 Excel: The Only App That Matters

Microsoft 365 Excel The Only App That Matters

There has never been a book like this in Excel history. This book covers worksheet formulas, standard PivotTables, array formulas, Power Query, M code formulas, Power Pivot, DAX formulas, Power BI Desktop, Power BI Online, worksheet model theory, data analysis theory, rules for visualizing data, dashboarding, financial cash analysis, simple linear regression, and even some […]

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How to Think about Data Science

How to Think about Data Science

Data science is an exciting and fast-evolving field that is no longer the exclusive domain of computer scientists and mathematicians. Today, many other professionals such as engineers, physicists, security experts, lawyers and hospital administrators approach this field and often make very valuable contributions thanks to their unique perspectives and backgrounds. Despite the abundance of excellent […]

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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Slenderman Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

This book is the result of seven years of research. My sources include police reports, doctors’ reports, police interrogations, court transcripts, previous coverage of the case, and other public records, as well as my interviews with psychologists, private investigators, juvenile justice experts, historians, professors, parents of children with mental illnesses, Morgan Geyser, her friends and […]

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

Fundamentals of Data Engineering Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

How did this book come about? The origin is deeply rooted in our journey from data science into data engineering. We often jokingly refer to ourselves as recovering data scientists. We both had the experience of being assigned to data science projects, then struggling to execute these projects due to a lack of proper foundations. […]

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Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

Designing Machine Learning Systems An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications

Ever since the first machine learning course I taught at Stanford in 2017, many people have asked me for advice on how to deploy ML models at their organizations. These questions can be generic, such as “What model should I use?” “How often should I retrain my model?” “How can I detect data distribution shifts?” […]

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Deep Learning: A Visual Approach

Deep Learning A Visual Approach

Imagine that you’re rubbing a golden lamp. You say, “Genie, for my three wishes, give me someone to love, great wealth, and a long and healthy life.” Now imagine that you’re entering your home. You say, “House, bring the car around, ask Sarah if she’s free for lunch, schedule a haircut, and make me a […]

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