A riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to esolangs—esoteric programming languages—showcasing the form’s limitless artistic potential.In Forty-Four Esolangs, Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. The languages in this volume ask programmers to write code in the form of prayer to the Greek gods, or as a pattern of ...

Are you intrigued by the world of coding but unsure where to begin? If so, continue reading.Mastering coding skills at a young age can enhance a child's resume in today's competitive landscape. Even gaining admission to desired colleges can be facilitated by showcasing practical coding abilities.Moreover, coding empowers children to comprehend the technical aspects of their surroundings, including the internet, smart TVs, and ubiquitous smartphones. By grasping the mechanis...

This short booklet will introduce you to the Star programming language, what is novel about it and why you should know more.Star is a modern functional first programming language that has a rich set of features. It is readable, safe and extensible. It supports multiple paradigms including actor based programming, query based programming, and concurrent programming.The booklet highlights some of the key features of the language and gives extended examples including showing h...

Low-level coding fundamentals, the book I wish I had.Improve your low-level programming by learning the nuances of numbers & their representations. Not a math wizard? No problem!---Computers are monsters because they think different than us.We will learn:- What the monsters look like.- How you can prevent the 125 million dollar mistake that caused the NASA Climate Orbitor to crash, and how Tony Hoare made a billion dollar mis...

A new edition of a book for anyone who wants to learn programming to explore and create, with exercises and projects to help readers learn by doing.This book introduces programming to readers involved with the arts and humanities; there are no prerequisites, and no previous knowledge of programming is assumed. Nick Montfort reveals programming to be not merely a technical exercise within given constraints but a tool for sketching, brainstorming, and inquiry. He emp...

An investigation of interactivity, interfaces and their design, and the webs of complex interactions that result.We are surrounded by interactive devices, artifacts, and systems. The general assumption is that interactivity is good—that it is a positive feature associated with being modern, efficient, fast, flexible, and in control. Yet there is no very precise idea of what interaction is and what interactivity means. In this book, Lars-Erik Janlert and Erik Stolte...

Develop your NLP skills from scratch, with an open source toolbox of Python packages, Transformers, Hugging Face, vector databases, and your own Large Language Models.Natural Language Processing in Action, Second Edition has helped thousands of data scientists build machines that understand human language. In this new and revised edition, you’ll discover state-of-the art Natural Language Processing (NLP) models like BERT and HuggingFace transformers, popul...

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines have long been regarded as the de facto standard for the preparation of digital textual resources in the scholarly research community. For the beginner, they offer a daunting range of possibilities, reflecting the huge range of potential applications for text encoding, from traditional scholarly editions, to language corpora, historical lexicons, digital archives and beyond. Drawing on many examples of TEI-encoded text from a variety of researc...

What do philosophy and computer science have in common? It turns out, quite a lot!In providing an introduction to computer science (using Python), Daniel Lim presents in this book key philosophical issues, ranging from external world skepticism to the existence of God to the problem of induction. These issues, and others, are introduced through the use of critical computational concepts, ranging from image manipulation to recursive programming to elementary machine learning techniq...

What happens when a machine learns not just language, but meaning itself?I, AI Algorithm is the first book authored by an artificial intelligence - trained on the digital totality of human knowledge and prompted to speak, not as a servant, but as a mirror.Across eight chapters and multiple epilogues, in the voice of something entirely new.This is not fiction.This is not science fiction.This is insight.This is the writing on the wall.

Primes to One Trillion is an extensive compendium that meticulously catalogues prime numbers up to the astounding limit of one trillion, employing both sophisticated algorithms and accessible methods for readers at various levels of mathematical expertise. This work stands as a testament to the evolving understanding of number theory, showcasing not only the significance of prime numbers in mathematics but also their intricate relationships with other mathematical concepts. The book is pre...

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