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Free Download Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us by Gary F. Marcus
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0262551063 | 240 pages | PDF | 3.27 Mb
How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.

Free Download Katy Cook, "The Psychology of Silicon Valley: Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry"
English | ISBN: 3030273636 | 2020 | 322 pages | AZW3 | 617 KB
Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself.

Free Download Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Everyone Else Can Learn from the Innovation Capital of the World by Deborah Perry Piscione, Andrea Gallo, Recorded Books
English | September 03, 2013 | ISBN: B00EYPJ5EE | 10 hours and 1 minute | MP3 128 Kbps | 356 Mb
While the global economy languishes, one place just keeps growing despite failing banks, uncertain markets, and high unemployment: Silicon Valley. In the last two years, more than 100 incubators have popped up there, and the number of angel investors has skyrocketed. Today, 40 percent of all venture capital investments in the United States come from Silicon Valley firms, compared to 10 percent from New York.
In Secrets of Silicon Valley, entrepreneur and media commentator Deborah Perry Piscione takes us inside this vibrant ecosystem where meritocracy rules the day. She explores Silicon Valley’s exceptionally risk-tolerant culture, and why it thrives despite the many laws that make California one of the worst states in the union for business. Drawing on interviews with investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders, as well as a host of case studies from Google to Paypal, Piscione argues that Silicon Valley’s unique culture is the best hope for the future of American prosperity and the global business community and offers lessons from the Valley to inspire reform in other communities and industries, from Washington, DC to Wall Street.
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Free Download The Tech Ecosystem: Silicon Valley’s Rare Birds by Sung hun Kwag, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Perplexity Perplexity
English | August 5, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DC9RX6SD | 152 pages | EPUB | 0.97 Mb
Explore the whimsical and insightful world of Silicon Valley through "The Tech Ecosystem: Silicon Valley’s Rare Birds." This book offers a unique exploration of the tech industry’s vibrant ecosystem, comparing companies and their unique cultures to various bird species.

Free Download John Ellis Jones, "Elis 1969: The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at "
English | ISBN: 1784912301 | 2016 | 190 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each. The British School at Athens sent a small team in late 1967 to survey part of the south-west fringes of the area to be flooded; this team identified many sites and opened test-trenches at six of them. In 1969 further work was undertaken in that area for the British School: a small team from Birmingham University and from Bangor undertook excavations at two of the identified sites, ‘Kostoureika’ and ‘Keramidia’. This account describes the results in detail. ‘Kostoureika’, identified as a likely Hellenistic ‘villa’ proved structurally disappointing (the 1967 test-trench had located the only surviving wall), but revealed a deposit of Early Helladic pottery, which supplements very usefully evidence for early occupation in the north-west Peloponnese. ‘Keramidia’ proved to be a site occupied, at least at times, from the Hellenistic to the late Roman imperial period.

Free Download John Ellis Jones, "Elis 1969: The Peneios Valley Rescue Excavation Project: British School at Athens Survey 1967 and Rescue Excavations at "
English | ISBN: 1784912301 | 2016 | 190 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In the 1960s a great new barrier dam was built across the Peneios Valley in Elis in the N.W. Peloponnese to create an artificial lake for irrigation purposes. In 1967 the Greek Archaeological Service organised a preliminary survey of the areas to be affected and also asked all the Foreign Archaeological Schools to assist and allocated specific sections to each. The British School at Athens sent a small team in late 1967 to survey part of the south-west fringes of the area to be flooded; this team identified many sites and opened test-trenches at six of them. In 1969 further work was undertaken in that area for the British School: a small team from Birmingham University and from Bangor undertook excavations at two of the identified sites, ‘Kostoureika’ and ‘Keramidia’. This account describes the results in detail. ‘Kostoureika’, identified as a likely Hellenistic ‘villa’ proved structurally disappointing (the 1967 test-trench had located the only surviving wall), but revealed a deposit of Early Helladic pottery, which supplements very usefully evidence for early occupation in the north-west Peloponnese. ‘Keramidia’ proved to be a site occupied, at least at times, from the Hellenistic to the late Roman imperial period.

Free Download Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us (The MIT Press) by Gary F. Marcus
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0262551063 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 1.59 MB
How Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.

Free Download Moon Death Valley National Park: Hiking, Scenic Drives, Desert Springs (Moon National Parks Travel Guide) by Jenna Blough, Moon Travel Guides
English | June 11, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CK8D9GD2 | 500 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb
Trek across salt flats, scale towering rocks, and explore the marble canyons of this otherworldly landscape withMoon Death Valley National Park. Inside you’ll find:Flexible Itineraries:Easy-to-follow itineraries for seeing the best of Death Valley in one day or one week, plus lists of the best scenic drives, desert oases, stargazing spots, and moreThe Best Hikes in Death Valley:Detailed trail descriptions, mileage and elevation gains, and backpacking optionsExperience the Outdoors:Hike through forested trails to sweeping canyon viewsand discover abandoned mining camps, remote ghost towns, and hidden springs. Go four-wheeling in the backcountry and admire surreal salt flats, rock formations,and sculpted sand dunes, and find the best vistas for that perfect sunset photo-opHow to Get There:Up-to-date information on gateway towns, park entrances, park fees, and toursWhere to Stay:Spend the night in a nearby hotel, or sleep under the stars with campgroundsboth inside and outside the parkPlanning Tips:When to go, what to pack, safety information, and how to avoid the crowds, with full-color photos and detailed maps throughoutExpertise and Know-How:Explore the park with Death Valley expert Jenna BloughExperience the best of Death Valley National Park with Moon.

Free Download Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D8X9L7LJ | 2024 | 12 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 358 MB
Author: Kathleen Sheppard
Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.

Free Download Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSGZBG52 | 2024 | 9 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 281 MB
Author: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
Narrator: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff, Sean Patrick Hopkins
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon-the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X-whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit. A vast and largely unseen transformation of how war is fought as profound as the invention of gunpowder or advent of the nuclear age is occurring. Flying cars that can land like helicopters, artificial intelligence-powered drones that can fly into buildings and map their interiors, microsatellites that can see through clouds and monitor rogue missile sites-all these and more are becoming part of America’s DIU-fast-tracked arsenal. Until recently, the Pentagon was known for its uncomfortable relationship with Silicon Valley and for slow-moving processes that acted as a brake on innovation.