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Author: David Sénécal
Publisher: Wiley
Date: July 2024
Pages: 356
ISBN: 978-1394262410
Audience: General
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This book is subtitled 'Defending against Abuses, Bots and Fraud on the Internet', which is a big and important topic.

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This book, the latest edition of a book that has established itself as the definitive references for successive versions of Ada,  covers the full details of the core language Ada 2022 as approved by ISO in 2023, including new features that aid program proof and the efficient use of multicore architectures. John Barnes a founder member of the Ada design team, begins with the key ideas to the newcomer. The algorithmic features, structural features such as OOP and multitasking, and details of the standard library and interaction with the external environment are all covered in subsequent parts.

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Exhorting "Use R!" on the cover, this book is an example-based introduction to the statistical computing environment that does not assume any previous familiarity with R or other software packages. Maria Rizzo and Jim Albert present R functions in the context of interesting applications with real data. The book is aimed at users who have at least the equivalent of  undergraduate level calculus-based courses in statistics. The new edition includes expanded coverage of ggplot2 graphics, as well as new chapters on importing data and multivariate data methods.

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Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s law, this book explains the foundations of a new way for computers to calculate that saves time, storage, energy, and power by packing more information into every bit than do legacy approaches. Both the AI and HPC communities are increasingly using the posit approach that Prof. John L. Gustafson introduced in 2017. The book is made engaging by including the human and historical side of the struggle to represent numbers on machines. It is richly illustrated in full color throughout, with every effort made to make the material as clear and accessible as possible, and even humorous.

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