Название: A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation
Автор: Abhinav Kimothi
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 398
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Everything you need to know about Retrieval Augmented Generation in one human-friendly guide. Generative AI models struggle when you ask them about facts not covered in their training data. Retrieval Augmented Generation—or RAG—enhances an LLM’s available data by adding context from an external knowledge base, so it can answer accurately about proprietary content, recent information, and even live conversations. RAG is powerful, and with A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation, it’s also easy to understand and implement! This book goes deeper than any blog or YouTube tutorial, covering fundamental RAG concepts that are essential for building LLM-based applications. You’ll be introduced to the idea of RAG and be guided from the basics on to advanced and modularized RAG approaches—plus hands-on code snippets leveraging LangChain, OpenAI, Transformers, and other Python libraries. For data scientists, Machine Learning and software engineers, and technology managers who wish to build LLM-based applications. Examples in Python - no experience with LLMs necessary.

Название: The AI-Centered Enterprise: Reshaping Organizations with Context Aware AI
Автор: Ram Bala, Natarajan Balasubramanian, Amit Joshi
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2026
Страниц: 200
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The explosion of Generative AI has sparked a wave of case studies showing how quickly and profoundly it is transforming businesses. Yet most of these use cases still apply the technology to enhancing existing systems. This book makes the case for why business leaders must revisit the fundamentals of Generative AI and look beyond short-term, tactical gains. Tools like ChatGPT mark just the beginning of Context Aware AI―systems that grasp both the content and intent of unstructured human input. Drawing on real-world examples and academic research, we demonstrate how Context Aware AI can enhance organizational interactions, unlock new forms of collaboration, and usher in the era of the AI-Centered Enterprise. By augmenting baseline Large Language Models (LLMs) with techniques like prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, and notably agentic systems, organizations can build customized tools that adapt to individual users’ thinking patterns and the collaborative workflows they are a part of. We present a practical framework―the 3Cs: Calibrate, Clarify, Channelize, to help leaders navigate this radical shift across multiple levels of organizations.

Название: Clojure Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind
Автор: Alex Miller, Lorilyn Jordan Miller
Издательство: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Год: February 2025 (Version: P1.0)
Страниц: 127
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

Challenge your knowledge of Clojure with 25 short Clojure teasers, sometimes with surprising results! Inspired by years of developer questions and feedback, these teasers are handpicked to clarify common points of confusion. Each code challenge illustrates Clojure's elegant design, explaining how and why it works. Enjoy these simple exercises solo or with friends to find gaps in your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and gain valuable insights. Tackle the most common points of confusion Clojure developers encounter, become more efficient when writing and debugging, and better predict the outcomes of Clojure code. Regardless of your Clojure experience, you're certain to learn something new. Clojure was designed to be a general-purpose functional language with a simple programming model for information systems (far simpler than the object-oriented models that dominate the industry). Many people have commented that aspects of Clojure, like immutable collections, functional programming, state management, concurrency, and open polymorphism, seem to fit together and support each other at a surprisingly deep level. This book assumes some basic familiarity with Clojure and its features.

Название: MATLAB Data Analysis (R2025a)
Автор: MathWorks
Издательство: The MathWorks, Inc.
Год: March 2025
Страниц: 140
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

The toolbox includes classes to represent the important types of geospatial data, including "vector" points, lines and polygons, and spatially-referenced images, digital terrain elevation grids, and other gridded data sets. These classes help keep all the information for a given data set together in one place, ensuring self-consistency and ease of access. The toolbox also includes functions to operate on and analyze these data sets. These functions provide data transformation and analysis, ranging from buffer zones around lines and polygons, to profile, line-of-sight, and viewshed analyses of terrain elevation grids.

Название: Artificial Intelligence: Humans at the Heart of Algorithms, 2nd Edition
Автор: Alan Dix
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2025
Страниц: 429
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 77.7 MB

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource, the first edition of An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence presented one of the first comprehensive examinations of AI. Designed to provide an understanding of the foundations of artificial intelligence, it examined the central computational techniques employed by AI, including knowledge representation, search, reasoning and learning, as well as the principal application domains of expert systems, natural language, vision, robotics, software agents and cognitive modelling. Many of the major philosophical and ethical issues of AI were also introduced. This new edition expands and revises the book throughout, with new material to augment existing chapters, including short case studies, as well as adding new chapters on explainable AI, Big Data and Deep Learning, temporal and web-scale data, statistical methods and data wrangling.

Название: Data-Oriented Design for Games (MEAP v4)
Автор: Nitzan Wilnai
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 287
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 24.8 MB

Use Data-Oriented Design to deliver games with outstanding performance while using less time and resources. Data-Oriented Design (DOD) has become standard practice for AAA games and indie devs who need to squeeze every drop of performance out of hardware and deliver games on a rapid schedule. DOD is a programming practice that streamlines the way your code accesses, stores, and uses data, taking advantage of modern CPU architecture and accelerating the dev process. Data-Oriented Design for Games is a unique and comprehensive guide to architecting and coding games using DOD principles. Data-Oriented Design for Games teaches you to deliver high-performance games, with code that’s simpler to extend and maintain. You’ll learn to design games from scratch using DOD and also how to apply DOD to existing object-oriented codebases. Through a simulated development process—complete with Jira tickets—you’ll construct a complete “survivor” style game that runs at a high framerate on limited hardware while being easy to expand. For game developers, team leads, and software directors. Examples in Unity.

Название: Data-Driven Cybersecurity: Reducing risk with proven metrics (MEAP v5)
Автор: Mariano Mattei
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 470
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 24.6 MB

Measure, improve, and communicate the value of your security program. Every business decision should be driven by data—and cyber security is no exception. In Data-Driven Cybersecurity, you'll master the art and science of quantifiable cybersecurity, learning to harness data for enhanced threat detection, response, and mitigation. The good news is that you don’t need to build AI algorithms from scratch. Many open-source libraries and frameworks—such as Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch—already provide pre-built models for cybersecurity applications. The key tasks are to collect high-quality, representative data, ensure AI systems are learning the right patterns, and continuously monitor and refine outputs to maintain effectiveness in an evolving threat landscape. For readers familiar with the basics of cyber security and data analysis.

Название: Git & GitHub - The Developer's Survival Guide: The Art of Version Control: A Practical Guide for Developers and Its Possibilities
Автор: Hugo S. Dias
Издательство: Independently published
Год: 2025
Страниц: 123
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Mastering version control is an essential skill for any modern developer. This practical guide introduces Git and GitHub in a clear and accessible way, helping both beginners and experienced developers improve their workflows. Welcome to the world of Git and GitHub, essential tools for every modern developer. This book is designed to demystify version control and collaboration, offering a practical and accessible approach for beginners and a concise guide for professionals seeking to enhance their skills. The goal of this material is to guide you from the first steps to advanced practices, helping you master the concepts and tools that have revolutionized software development. Mastering Git and GitHub is a fundamental skill for modern developers. From the basics to advanced commands, this book equips you with the tools and strategies to confidently navigate Git and GitHub, ensuring smoother collaboration and efficient code management.

Название: Think Distributed Systems (MEAP v9)
Автор: Dominik Tornow
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 255
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 22.0 MB

Reason confidently about distributed systems. All modern software is distributed. Let’s say that again—all modern software is distributed. Whether you’re building mobile utilities, microservices, or massive cloud native enterprise applications, creating efficient distributed systems requires you to think differently about failure, performance, network services, resource usage, latency, and much more. This clearly-written book guides you into the mindset you’ll need to design, develop, and deploy scalable and reliable distributed systems. Think Distributed Systems provides accurate and concise mental models to help you reason confidently about distributed systems. It delivers a big picture view of distributed systems along with a detailed look at key topics like partitioning, replication, durable executions, and consensus protocols. For software engineers and architects.

Название: Microsoft Semantic Kernel in Action (MEAP v3)
Автор: Daniel Costea
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 308
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 13.2 MB

Build AI applications that integrate multiple models, data sources, and other components using Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Even simple AI applications need to combine LLMs and other models, functions and plugins created in various programming languages, and custom data sources. With the Microsoft Semantic Kernel SDK, you can create chatbots, copilots, and agents by chaining individual components together using a few lines of glue code. Semantic Kernel makes it a snap to build AI apps from scratch or integrate AI features into an existing codebase. Microsoft Semantic Kernel in Action teaches you to create AI applications and integrate AI into existing software using C# and the lightweight Semantic Kernel SDK. The book covers both proprietary AI models like OpenAI's GPT and open-source options like Llama and Phi. For beginner and expert .NET developers, data scientists, and AI enthusiasts seeking to integrate AI into applications.