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Everything you need to know about Retrieval Augmented Generation in one human-friendly guide. 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!

Software was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; social media platforms like Facebook would bring people together; and generative AI would solve the world’s greatest ills. Yet in practice, few of the systems we looked to with such high hopes have lived up to their fundamental mandate. In fact, in too many cases they've made things worse. How did we get to this point? In Fatal Abstraction, Darryl Campbell explains that the problem is "managerial software".

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Pitch, Sketch, Launch extracts the techniques used to create today’s most beloved comedy shows and applies them to revitalizing software development. It shines a spotlight on the sketch comedy world’s ethos of feedback-driven product deliveries and its playful search for original solutions. Insightful interviews, best practices, and case studies demonstrate how creating comedy applies to designing top-tier software.

Explore the very best corners of the internet — one click at a time. 1000 Websites Worth Visiting is your curated guide to the online world’s most helpful, inspiring, curious, creative, and downright fascinating destinations. From productivity tools and creative platforms to hidden gems and digital oddities, this book brings together a wide variety of websites that educate, entertain, and enrich your life. Organized into 50 themed chapters, it’s perfect for students, creators, learners, travelers, entrepreneurs, and the endlessly curious. Whether you're looking to level up your skills...

In today’s fast-moving world, AI isn’t just for tech experts or data scientists—it’s for you. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, busy professional, creative thinker, or total beginner, this book will show you how to use ChatGPT and AI tools to save time, boost productivity, and get more done than ever before.

Discount Sale!!!! NOW 50% LESS!!! From $9.99 to $4.99!! For Blender 2.79! Most books on how to use Blender in Amazon are overwhelming and overloaded with information. This book is detailed with instructions but does not over-explain and feed the reader more than they can chew. Every detailed step-by-step 3D modeling activity in this book is designed as if it was your first time using Blender. The 3D modeling activities are designed to give you the confidence to experiment and try new things in Blender. These activities are introductory level but do not expect to be an elite modeler without ...

Ready to turn your wildest story ideas into reality? This beginner-friendly guide unlocks the power of Grok AI to supercharge your fiction writing. Whether you’re dreaming up epic sci-fi adventures, heart-pounding mysteries, or magical fantasies, Grok AI is your ultimate creative partner—and this book shows you how to harness it! Learn to: Brainstorm Unique Plots: Discover step-by-step techniques to generate fresh, gripping story ideas with Grok AI. Craft Vivid Worlds: Build immersive settings and characters with AI-powered insights. Polish Your Prose: Use Grok AI to refine your writing...

Usando una herramienta gratuita, App Inventor, es posible desarrollar cualquier aplicación (Programa) para su teléfono celular en pocos minutos. No requiere especiales conocimientos. Cualquiera puede hacerlo. En este libro se muestran algunos ejemplos completos. No se pretende explicar la herramienta en profundidad sino ayudarlo a que comience a usarla. ¡Que veas que es posible! ¡Que es muy fácil!

Building with OpenAI: A Developer's Guide is a comprehensive, hands-on tutorial for students, developers, and researchers aiming to master the art of building intelligent applications using the OpenAI API. This book bridges the gap between theoretical AI concepts and practical, real-world implementation. It takes you on a structured journey from your very first API call to deploying sophisticated, production-ready AI systems. With a strong emphasis on simplicity and practical examples, this guide ensures that even those with minimal AI experience can start building powerful tools ...

“Write once, run anywhere,” they promised. What they didn’t say was: debug everywhere, depend on monstrous frameworks, and drown in boilerplate forever. Java Is Awful is not a rant. It’s a technically grounded, brutally honest critique of one of the most overhyped languages in the history of programming. Written by veteran engineer Juan Franchino, who has over 50 years of experience — from punched cards to cloud-native systems — this book walks through the rise and fall of Java from a pragmatic, developer-first perspective. Inside, you’ll find: Why Java’s syntax became an ...

Industry expert Alex Aniel spent two years interviewing key former members of Capcom staff, allowing him to tell the inside story of how Resident Evil was envisioned as early as the late 1980s, how its unexpected and unprecedented success saved the company from financial trouble, how the series struggled at the turn of the century, and, eventually, how a new generation of creators was born after the release of Resident Evil 4.

We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care? Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970.

Unlock the potential of Generative AI with this Large Language Model production-ready playbook for seamless deployment, optimization, and scaling. This hands-on guide takes you beyond theory, offering expert strategies for integrating LLMs into real-world applications using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, PEFT, LoRA, and scalable inference architectures. Whether you're an ML engineer, data scientist, or MLOps practitioner, you’ll gain the technical know-how to operationalize LLMs efficiently, reduce compute costs, and ensure rock-solid reliability in production.

A compelling and clear exploration of the power and peril of advanced artificial intelligence that provides actionable suggestions for all citizens to create a safer future with AI.

Are you aspiring to become an AWS Certified Developer? Are you looking for a comprehensive resource to prepare for the AWS Certified Developer exam? Look no further! This book is your ultimate guide to acing the AWS Certified Developer certification by providing you with a robust set of practice test questions and detailed answers to help you succeed.

Take a deep dive into Kubernetes inner components and discover what really powers a Kubernetes cluster. Core Kubernetes is an in-depth guide to Kubernetes’ internal workings written by Kubernetes contributors. It’s packed with experience-driven insights and advanced techniques you won’t find anywhere else. You’ll understand the unique security concerns of container-based applications, minimize costly unused capacity, and get pro tips for maximizing performance. Diagrams, labs, and hands-on examples ensure that the complex ideas are easy to understand and apply.

The creative process for designing a playful structure applicable to a board game, video game, gamified system, gamification, edutainment, and art games, among others. PLAYFUL STRUCTURE - A GAME DESIGN METHODOLOGY By applying the five essential elements of playful structure (satisfying desires and needs, a progression system, a scalable challenge, objectives, and a reward system), it is possible to analyze a game mechanism, solve gameplay problems, and make a product more likely to appeal to and retain people. The methodology can be applied to video games, board games, role-playing games, ...

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on third edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for version 1.0 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.

An infographic for programmers presents complicated technical ideas, coding best practices, or industry trends in an easily consumed visual style. An infographic uses images, icons, and succinct text to simplify data whether it is showing the software development process, contrasting programming languages, or offering debugging advice.