Best case: survival The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam wrong answers are fatal. Worst case: death Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation. With ten kids of his own he can't begin to understand what could lead someone to target anyone's children. As another st...

You have heard that running AI on your own computer is possible, but every headline leaves out the messy details. You encounter terms like VRAM, quantization, and tokens per second, and each new term opens another rabbit hole of conflicting advice. This book exists to flatten that learning curve for you, consolidating everything you need to know about building a local AI rig, from a budget build for under $1,000 to an enthusiast system that runs the largest open models.This book is...

Most machine learning books fall into two camps: they either drown you in mathematical notation or hand you a perfectly clean Jupyter notebook that leaves you utterly unprepared for the mess of real-world data. This book exists to destroy that false choice, offering a project-first approach that teaches you machine learning by building complete systems from start to finish. It bridges the gap between following a tutorial and shipping a production model that delivers real value.This...

Every day, millions of people interact with AI tools without a second thought to the technology inside. For most, the neural networks, transformers, and weight matrices are an impenetrable black box. But the gap between using AI and understanding it has never been wider, and the tools to build your own models have never been more accessible. This book exists to bridge that gap. You no longer need a team of specialized engineers to leverage state-of-the-art open-source models. A single deve...

You have an idea for an app, a website, or a tool that could change your business or your life, but the wall of code has always stopped you. Until recently, building software required years of technical education or the budget to hire developers. That world has changed. OpenAI's Codex is a software product that acts as an agent on your behalf, reading files, editing code, fixing bugs, and building features, all in response to plain language instructions that require no technical knowledge ...

Learning Python is more than adding a skill to your resume. It is the ability to automate tedious tasks, analyze data, and build things that only exist in your imagination. But most books fall into two traps: they are either syntax references or recipe books that leave you unable to build your own projects.This 5-in-1 volume combines a guided curriculum with practical projects. You will learn the language, build real applications, and develop the confidence to solve problems you ha...

Every software engineer knows the feeling of staring at a blank code editor with a problem description that might as well be in a foreign language. You have read the prompt three times, but you have no idea where to start. This book changes that by teaching you the finite set of structural patterns that power every coding question, from sliding window to topological sort and everything in between.Unlike other resources that teach patterns in isolation, this book provides a decision...

The tech industry promotes its best engineers into management with little support, assuming technical excellence translates into leadership ability. This is a lie. The skills that made you a great engineer are not the skills that will make you a great leader.This 5-in-1 book is a complete guide to the leadership pipeline. It covers every level, from your first 90 days as a new manager to leading as a CTO or VP. It provides practical frameworks for delegation, performance management...

Every week, another team realizes that getting an LLM demo to work is easy but getting a system to work reliably in production is brutally hard. This book exists to bridge that gap. It is organized into five parts that correspond to the five essential pillars of LLM application development: foundations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, evaluation, and production deployment.This book is not a collection of code snippets that you can copy and paste. The real value l...

Every organization that deploys artificial intelligence today faces the same uncomfortable truth. The systems they rely on are fundamentally opaque. Neural networks don't explain themselves, and language models don't come with warranties. The industry has raced to make AI more capable, but it has spent less time ensuring these systems are predictable, explainable, controllable, and properly governed. This book exists to close that gap.AI safety is not a single problem that can be s...

You are standing in front of a wall of bottles, and every single one claims to be the best. That is the state of the AI industry today. Every week brings a new model with a new benchmark score, and the confusion is paralyzing. How do you choose the right one without wasting time and money? The Complete AI Models Bible 5 in 1 is the only guide you need.This book delivers on five essential promises: a framework for comparing models, a process for choosing the right one, a method for ...

There is a company headquartered in Cupertino that has spent 50 years doing something no other tech company has managed to replicate. It hasn't just built products; it has built a worldview, shaping the expectations of billions of users and generating more profit than any company in history. This book is not a celebration or a condemnation, but a case study in strategic decision-making, product discipline, and organizational culture, revealing the patterns behind Apple's extraordinary run....