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"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, espoused by scientists for more than a century, led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, led by AI researcher Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through years of confusion about the nature of knowledge and established the study of causality at the center of scientific inquiry. In The Book of Why, Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie explain why causal thinking, manifested in our ability to imagine the consequences of our actions, is among humanity's greatest gifts. It enables us to answer questions that generations of scientists could not touch. Beginning with simple scenarios, like whether it was rain or a lawn sprinkler that got a sidewalk wet, the authors show how causal thinking solves some of today's hardest problems, including: whether a drug cured an illness; whether an employer has discriminated against some applicants; and whether we can blame a heat wave on global warming. Causal thinking also enables us to imagine the consequences of what could but did not happen: What if you had not bought this book? Pearl's work shows us how to answer a counterfactual not just with speculation but with convincing scientific rigor. The most profound implications of the study of causality, however, may lie in the field of artificial intelligence. Today's machine learning relies on correlations, not causation. Causal thinking will transform computers into true scientists. And because causal thinking reveals culpability, it could transform computers into moral beings-perhaps the most important thing we could do with machines poised to take over our lives. Much like Thinking, Fast and Slow, The Book of Why is among the rare books that will both upend the foundations of scientific thought and empower ordinary people with new understanding of their own thinking. The accompanying reference guide is included as a PDF.
Dana Mackenzie, Judea Pearl (Author), Mel Foster (Narrator)
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The Blog Startup: The Complete Guide on Being a Blogger, Discover All the Useful Information You Nee
The Blog Startup: The Complete Guide on Being a Blogger, Discover All the Useful Information You Need on Starting Your Own Blog Today Are you looking to start writing your own blog? It's a great idea! Blogs are information websites or like online journals where anyone can post about any topic of information. It can be devoted to a certain topic only or multiple ones or for some people, they act as online diaries of their experiences. You can start a blog for personal use or for your business as well. Starting a blog for your business will be very beneficial in staying connected with your customers as well as giving them more information about your product or services. Starting your own blog is easy and this audiobook will show you a step-by-step guide on how you can enter the world of blogging and start your own blog today. You will discover the ways on how you can possibly earn money from blogging. You will learn how to have an engaging blog that would make your readers keep on coming back for more. This audiobook will discuss the following topics: - Beginners Guide to Blogging - Blogging For Money - Affiliate Marketing and Blogging - Effective Blogging - Common Blogging Mistakes - Essential Blogging Tools There is some debate on whether blogs have lost their popularity but studies show that blogs are considered the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information. And for businesses, those who have bogs are able to receive 67% more leads than those without. If you're a beginner in blogging and want to learn the ins and outs of starting your own blog, scroll up and click 'add to cart' now.
Stephie Morgan (Author), Tracy Pearson (Narrator)
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The Blockchain Metaverse: A Beginner’s Guide to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Digital Cryptocu
Do you want to know why Internet titans such as Facebook are rebranding as Metaverse platforms? Or what augmented reality, gaming, NFTs, blockchain technology, and virtual real estate have to do with the Metaverse? If so, you need to keep reading… You’ve probably heard of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale and Ariana Grande’s virtual concert in the video game Fortnite. You might be wondering why there is so much hype around the Metaverse? And more importantly, what is the Metaverse, and how can you generate life-changing wealth for yourself and your family? In The Blockchain Metaverse, you will discover: - What the Metaverse actually is and the history behind this phenomenon - The traditional Metaverse vs. the blockchain Metaverse - Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in the Metaverse - What NFTs are and how they are used in the Metaverse - Metaverse games and how players are generating passive income - Why investors are purchasing virtual real estate in the Metaverse - The future state of the blockchain Metaverse and how you can invest in it now …and so much more! If you could turn back the dial to the late 90s and invest in the Internet… would you? Internet titans such as Amazon, Google, and Meta have taken investors by storm. And now is the perfect opportunity for smaller investors to front-run slow-moving hedge funds and institutions by investing in the next Internet, the Blockchain Metaverse. So, if you are ready to take one more step toward understanding the next generation's largest technological advancement and unlocking financial freedom for yourself, then buy this book now!
Donny Walters (Author), Daniel Junior Sabwelera (Narrator)
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The Blockchain Economy - A Primer
This book is not a technical introduction to Blockchain technology; there's plenty of freely accessible material on that. Instead, this book makes the case that Blockchains will have at least as much economic impact in the 21st century as corporations in the 20th century. The Blockchain Economy provides you different perspectives on the drastic potential of Blockchain technology to disrupt nearly every business or political system in existence today. Some of the ideas may appear evident to you; others may not yet. But in due time, many of them will be implemented in the real world by practitioners, programmers, and Blockchain architects. Myriads of new ideas and applications of Blockchain technology will see the light of the day. Due to the disruptive value proposition of providing permissionless, trusted, secure, and decentralized information management, these applications will create new blue oceans of opportunity, breaking out of the bloody red oceans of existing centralized financial infrastructures. In particular, you'll learn about the economic impact of Bitcoin, decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), censorship-resistance, governance, and many more key Blockchain concepts--and their impact on today's economy.
Christian Mayer (Author), Eliot Brown (Narrator)
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of 'artificial' intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into--one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations--Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
Amy Webb (Author), Amanda Dolan (Narrator)
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The Big Data: How New Data and the Internet Help Us Analyze Everything
Book 1: Big data can tremendously improve a company's performance. Many company owners or accountants don't look at all the numbers, misread the numbers, or don't know how to scale faster and more effectively. In this audiobook, you can listen to information on topics like: - Obstacles most businesses face when trying to process technological data - - Customer analysis based on data to understand them better - - Using databases to create more wealth, higher profit margins, and happier customers - - Improving business data storage and using video marketing services the right way - - Human resources data and challenges when looking at small and big data - - Better performance and security though online data and protective systems - - Safeguarding your data from various security attacks Book 2: Discover the correct data and solutions for your organization now. All organizations, especially larger ones, face this one dilemma: sorting and reading the big data. Whether it's a business, NGO, or another organization, patterns and numbers need to be understood to keep management as effective as possible. This audio solves all kinds of problems and addresses topics for entrepreneurs, accountants, and managers, such as: - The importance of big data and its significance to companies - Why investing in more effective big data analysis can help firms scale up massively - Big data for small and midsize businesses - The top factors to take into account when viewing and interpreting the details of big data - The two problems that can happen when implementing Big Data Hadoop - How big data help any organization compete in a crazy, competitive society
David Feldspar (Author), Jason R. Gray (Narrator)
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The Best of Radical Candor, Vol. 1: Get Stuff Done
A show about how to kick ass at work without losing your humanityThe Radical Candor® approach—Caring Personally while Challenging Directly—can move you from a command-and-control culture to one of collaboration. Developed by Kim Scott, Radically Candid guidance is feedback that’s both kind and clear, specific and sincere. The Radical Candor Get Stuff Done Wheel: Guide Your Team To Achieve ResultsThe Get Stuff Done Wheel has 7 steps: Listen, Clarify, Debate, Decide, Persuade, Implement, and Learn. When run effectively, the GSD Wheel will enable your team to achieve more collectively than anyone could ever dream of achieving individually. Listen: Your team should know what the company is trying to achieve, and they likely have some of the best ideas for what your team should be achieving. First, listen to their ideas in trying to figure out which goals your team should be pursuing. If you can build a culture where people listen to one another, they will start to fix things you as the boss never even knew were broken. Clarify: Remember that new ideas are fragile and therefore easily squished. A critical role a manager can play is to augment the voice of their team by helping the team clarify their ideas and by clarifying the manager’s understanding of the ideas. Debate: Allowing the team time and space to publicly debate the ideas is a critical step. Guidelines for good debate include making the discussion about the ideas and not about egos. It’s about finding the best answer together, not about who won the debate. Decide: The best bosses often do not decide themselves, but rather create a clear decision-making process that empowers people closest to the facts to make as many decisions as possible. Not only does that result in better decisions, but it also results in better morale. Persuade: This isn’t easy, and it’s vital to get it right. Persuasion at this stage can feel unnecessary and make the decider resentful of people on the team who aren’t fully in agreement. The decider has painstakingly gone through the listen, clarify, and debate steps and made a decision. Why doesn’t everyone else get why it’s obvious we should do this—or at least be willing to fall in line? But expecting others to implement a decision without being persuaded that it’s the right thing to do is a recipe for terrible results. And don’t imagine that you can step in and simply tell everyone to get in line behind a decision, whether you have made it or somebody else has. Implement: As the boss, part of your job is to take a lot of the “collaboration tax” on yourself so that your team can spend more time implementing. The responsibilities you have as a boss take up a tremendous amount of time. One of the hardest things about being a boss is balancing these responsibilities with the work you need to do personally in your area of expertise. Here are the four things I’ve learned about getting this balance right: Don’t waste your team’s time; keep the “dirt under your fingernails;” block time to implement and fight meeting proliferation. Learn: By the time you’ve reached Learn—the last spot on the Get Sh*t Done Wheel—you and your team have put in a ton of work, you’ve achieved something, and you want it to be great. And it is human nature for us to become attached—often unreasonably attached—to projects we’ve invested a lot of time and energy into. It can take almost superhuman discipline to step back, acknowledge when our results could be a lot better or are simply no good, and learn from the experience.
Amy Sandler, Brandi Neal, Jason Rosoff, Kim Scott (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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The Basics of Live Streaming: Discover Everything About Live Streaming Including Creating Content, Increasing the Quality of Your Video Streams and Making Money From Your Live Streaming If you’re a complete newcomer to live video streaming and you’ve never streamed a video before in your life, then you might find it somewhat nerve wracking going in front of a camera. This can be a very scary feeling as you’re going to be exposed and live on the feed and the whole process is quite unlike any other form of marketing. But not to worry because this audiobook will walk you through everything. It will be your guide in everything about live streaming, how it works, how to get started and what kind of content you can make in order to generate traffic and profits. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - How to Get Started With Live Video Streaming - Some Top Potential Uses for Live Video Apps - The Top Types of Content to Create For Live Streaming - How to Increase the Quality of Your Video Streams - Some Tips for Creating Better Content for Live Video Streaming - Meerkat vs Blab vs Periscope - Top Ways to Profit From Live Streaming - How to Avoid Legal Troubles on Live Streaming Platforms - More Marketing Opportunities Presented by Live Video - The Future of Live Streaming - And many more! Live Streaming is incredibly young and this is partly what makes it such an exciting platform. If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!
Drake Gregers (Author), Marcus Mulenga (Narrator)
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The Basics of Hacking: A Beginner's Guide to the Art of Cybersecurity As technology continues to advance, the need for secure systems has become increasingly important. However, with this growth in technology also comes an increase in the threat of cyber-attacks. In order to protect against these threats, it is crucial to have an understanding of the tools used by both ethical and malicious hackers. This audiobook will teach you the basics of hacking so you can protect yourself from the perils of cyber attacks. This audiobook will cover the following topics: - Hacking Tools You Must Know Including Password Crackers - Security Breaches - XSS Security - Bluetooth Hacking - Captcha Techniques - Virus vs. Spyware – What is the difference? - And many more! If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!
Teddy Alger (Author), Shafi (Narrator)
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The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines
The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation-and how we can thrive in this new era. We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us. This loss of human autonomy amounts to nothing less than a societal phase change, a fundamental paradigm shift. The same institutions will remain-schools, banks, churches, and corporations-but they will radically change form, obey new rules, and use new tools. William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone go deeply into the enormous implications of these developments. They show why increases in productivity no longer translate into increases in the GDP and how zero cost, one-to-many communications have been turned into tools for cybercrime and propaganda. Many of the book's recommendations-such as using taxes to control irresponsible internet behavior and enabling people to put their data into what are essentially virtual personal information "safety deposit boxes"-are bold and visionary, but we must figure out how we will deal with these emerging challenges now, before the Autonomous Revolution overcomes us.
Michael S. Malone, William H. Davidow (Author), Michael S. Malone (Narrator)
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The Audiobook Revolution: Harnessing AI for Cheap, Fast, and Exceptional Narration
Demystifying AI in Audiobook Production: The Guide to Affordable, High-Quality Narration Dive into the fascinating world of audiobooks and artificial intelligence with our groundbreaking guide, 'The Audiobook Revolution: Harnessing AI for Cheap, Fast, and Exceptional Narration.' This comprehensive book takes you through the seismic shift occurring in the audiobook industry due to the advent of AI. Explore the audiobook boom and why AI plays an increasingly central role. Delve into the evolution of AI in audio technology, its benefits, and the advanced features it brings to audiobook narration. Get to grips with the text-to-speech engines and other tools integral to AI narration. Master the art and science of AI narration. Learn how to prepare your text for AI narration, choose the right AI voice, or even clone your own voice for a personalized touch. With hands-on guidance, ensure consistency and quality in AI narration for an exceptional listening experience. Discover the benefits of AI in terms of cost and time efficiencies, backed by real-life case studies. Navigate the audiobook distribution landscape, from understanding major retailers to strategies for multi-retailer distribution and revenue considerations. Boost your marketing with effective strategies tailored to audiobooks and leverage the unique AI angle. Learn how to maximize exposure across retailers to reach more listeners and increase sales. Finally, take a glimpse into the future of AI and audiobooks. Discover emerging trends, potential challenges, and the continuing revolution in the audiobook industry. Unleash the potential of AI in your audiobook projects. Whether you're a writer, publisher, or tech enthusiast, 'The Audiobook Revolution' is your indispensable guide to the exciting fusion of technology and storytelling. Join the revolution today!
Jack Pemberton (Author), Jack Pemberton (Narrator)
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The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI
Brought to you by Penguin. A vital perspective is missing from the discussions we're having about Artificial Intelligence: what does it mean for our identity? Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world. Neil D. Lawrence's visionary book shows why these fears may be misplaced. Atomism, proposed by Democritus, suggested it was impossible to continue dividing matter down into ever smaller components: eventually we reach a point where a cut cannot be made (the Greek for uncuttable is 'atom'). In the same way, by slicing away at the facets of human intelligence that can be replaced by machines, AI uncovers what is left: an indivisible core that is the essence of humanity. By contrasting our own (evolved, locked-in, embodied) intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded. Not just by the experts, but ordinary people. Either AI is a tool for us, or we become a tool of AI. Understanding this will enable readers to choose the future we want. ©2024 Neil D. Lawrence (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Neil D. Lawrence (Author), Neil D. Lawrence, TBD (Narrator)
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