Science Analysis

In your everyday life artificial intelligence is all around you. Every time you buy a product on Amazon, follow a new profile on Instagram, listen to a song on Spotify or reserve a room on Booking, they are learning something out of your behavior. And these are just the most visible aspects of how machine learning is having an impact on our lives. Everyone knows how important machine learning is for the growth and success of the biggest tech companies, and many people know about the machine learning impact in science, medicine and statistics.

The success of an autobiography can be measured by many different aspects. Some works are of merit for entertainment purposes alone. Many Hollywood celebrities find an audience for their life's story due to their willingness to share closely held secrets and peculiarities. We are drawn in because of the salacious promise of a glimpse into a life more glamorous or unusual than our own.

The phrase “white fragility” has grown into a term that many people have accepted and referenced when talking about the defensiveness and discomfort a white person feels when talking about race. The book aims to create a dialogue about race despite the white fragility that Americans feel when confronted with that topic. The book, published in 2018, has gained strong reviews because it explores race in-depth and attempts to break down those walls that white people have built in order to protect themselves from acknowledging their race and the benefits it gives them in life.

In this audio summary of The Order of Time, theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli explores the very nature of time, physics, humanity, and philosophy in a book that challenges our perceptions of the world around us.

This is a summary and analysis of Anthony William’s Medical Medium: Thyroid Healing, which looks at the root cause of thyroid-related symptoms and explains why chronic illnesses are at an all-time high today. William includes a comprehensive protocol to resurrect your thyroid and keep your body - and mind - functioning as well as it has ever been.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, a former star, amateur wrestler at Harvard who went on to become an award-winning astrophysicist, might be the most well-known science communicator in the United States since the late Carl Sagan. Tyson, who has served as the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City since 1996, had published a dozen books prior to Astrophysics for People in a Hurry; all of them have been aimed at a popular audience. In spite of that, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is probably his most accessible and scaled-down work to date.

In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations.

When it comes to confronting Eurocentric behavior quite a few Black Americans who have been weaned within the confines of a hostile society have developed a strong case of Stockholm Syndrome. Xavier James examines in detail this tragic psychological disposition.

To anticipate and inform future responses to demographic change, Justin Gest looks to the past. In Majority Minority, Gest wields historical analysis and interview-based fieldwork inside six of the world's few societies that have already experienced a majority minority transition to understand what factors produce different social outcomes. Gest concludes that states hold great power to shape public responses and perceptions of demographic change through political institutions and the rhetoric of leaders.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Jim Fraser introduces the concept of forensic science and explains how it is used in the investigation of crime.

This is an audio summary of Bob's Woodward's best-selling book that explores the detailed inner workings of Trump's highly unorthodox, and often toxic, White House. It is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, the original book.

Thomas Henry Huxley was a prominent member of the scientific community and an early advocate of evolutionism. His work and public debates served to explore this idea and to usher in widespread acceptance, forming the foundation of our current understanding of biology and the place of man in the cosmos. Evolution and Ethics is a work which highlights the ethical and theological implications of the theory of evolution.

(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.) In his groundbreaking book, geneticist David Reich presents findings from the "Ancient DNA Revolution," challenging assumptions about where humans came from, how we lived, and how modern race as we know it came to be. Buy this audiobook now!

This FastReads summary offers supplementary material to Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, FastReads summary is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 30 minutes!

It’s no secret that many jobs will be eliminated in the near future. While that reality may be difficult to digest, it’s also believed that the most responsible party - namely, automation - will lead the way in a golden age of opportunity. That’s because there will be a tremendous need for people who are capable of programming all those new systems. And, the language of choice for machine learning software is Python which, as it happens, is the perfect first language to learn.

O estudo e a compreensão do comportamento humano são aspectos fundamentais para entendermos o mundo em que vivemos e como nossas ações impactam o outro e a sociedade. Justamente por isso, pela fundamental importância em obter os conhecimentos específicos para compreender comportamentos, que a Análise Comportamental é uma ferramenta valiosa.

While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways.

Why do terrorist organizations use children to support their cause and carry out their activities? Small Arms uncovers the brutal truth behind the mobilization of children by terrorist groups. Mia Bloom and John Horgan show us the grim underbelly of society that allows and even encourages the use of children to conduct terrorist activities. They provide listeners with the who, what, when, why, and how of this increasingly concerning situation.

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a watershed moment for the contemporary American environmental movement.